Plumridge "Hospital Ships and Ambulance Trains"

[pauldesmondwhite]

Errata: I think most of these have had a mention before, but maybe a consolidation will help someone.

Sorry for the lousy layout/formatting.

App Ch Page Line Status For Read

1 17 19 Confirmed Cecelia Cecilia

1 18 14 Confirmed Argon Aragon

3 37 19 Confirmed Connick Coninck

A 163 27 Confirmed Suffold Suffolk

B 165 16 Uncertain Antgalican Antigallican

C 166 9 Confirmed Devanah Devanha

C 166 23 Confirmed St Dennis St Denis

C 168 4 Confirmed Connick Coninck

D 169 8 Confirmed Ascasrius Ascanius

D 169 9 Uncertain Alauria Alaunia

D 169 13 Confirmed Caledonian Caledonia

D 169 22 Confirmed Karanowna Kanowna

Paul

[Ken Lees]

Maybe it's me, but what does the post above mean? What are the abbreviations? And what is/was confirmed/uncertain?

[pauldesmondwhite]

Sorry, does this look any better?

Columns are Appendix, Chapter, Page, Line, etc. Status "Confirmed" means i've satisfied myself from various other sources of its correctness.

[pauldesmondwhite]

Here's a link to Plumridge index by hospital ship name - 479 entries!

http://www.herservic...dge%20Index.pdf

Email me if problems

[kjharris]

Hi there

I thought the Cecilia was actually the hospital ship Sicilia

cheers

Kirsty

[pauldesmondwhite]

Hi, Kirsty

The Sicilia was a military HS, listed in Plumridge Appendix C.

There was a yacht Cecilia (formerly Nerissa) that he lists amongst naval HS on page 17. The Nerissa was built in about 1890 at Glasgow and registered in 1896 at Goucester (don't know anything about ownership). Sir Charles Wyndham Murray bought it in 1910, renamed it Cecilia (after his wife, Lady Murray) and had it registered at Southampton. By August 1915 he'd made it available to the Navy, but i'm not sure under what arrangement (or whether he skippered it). It was broken up in 1946.

That's all i know. Maybe other members can add something here?

Paul