AIF Troop Ships

[Guest stevebec]

Can anyone confirm the last return date of the "Borda".

The info has it around April/May 1919?

Also I noticed that their was a listing somewhere of all these ships with details of their Trips to and from Australia during the war can anyone point me in that direction.

Many thanks

S.B

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Steve

You will find basic details only on HMATs, including a photo of BORDA, on this site:

http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-confli..._transports.htm

BORDA. Off No. 135340.

Steel twin screw passenger/cargo steamer.

Launched 17th December 1913 as Yard No 326 ,by Caird & Co., Ltd . ,

Greenock.Delivered 8th March 1914.

11199 GRT.

500ft length, 62ft beam, 38ft depth. Two decks.

Fitted with electricity, wireless and refrigeration m/c.

300 Third Class passenger accomodation and was capable of taking a further

750 emmigrants when required.

Twin quadruple expansion steam engines of 1200 NHP,two single ended and two

double ended boilers operating at 215 lbs/sqin pressure supplied and fitted

by builders.Service speed 14 Knots.

Owners Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Greenock.( P & O Ltd.)

Port of Registry : Greenock.

This vessel , with her four sisters,was built especially for the Australian

emigrant trade.They operated a three weekly service

She was operated by a subsiduary of P & O - P & O Branch Line - as a direct

result of Government legislation ,in 1910, which stipulated that all

emigrant vessels must be manned by white crews.

Voyages were mostly started at London calling at Las Palmas ,Capetown ,

Adelaide ,Melbourne, Sydney and Albany "by inducement".Later Fremantle was

substituted for Albany and calls were made at Brisbane.

1914 Requisitioned as troop transport

1918. Returned to owners.

1930. Sold to Tokai Shoji K.K. , Kobe ,Japan .

26th August arrived Osaka for demolition.

17th September, commenced breaking up.

There is a good photo of BORDA taken in Table Bay (and credited to the

National Maritime Museum) in Rabson & O'Donoghue "P&O: A Fleet History"

(World ship Society, Kendal 1988)

Dave

[jim_davies]

Steve,

Try www.unsw.adfa.edu.au

"Search" for Infantry and you should get the url ending with mallett/Infantry.html

This might be the site.

Jim

[Guest stevebec]

Thanks,

I have these sites and confirm my records but I did see on this site an answer to a question some time ago about these ships and the bloke who replied had a site some where in Australia?

It showed all the ships and the dates they left Australia and returned.

Someone I know was after who was carried on this ship when it returned from the UK to Australia in 1919.

So far I can not find any units per say only Returned men from all units.

This was comon at this stage of the war. As the AIF returned its soldiers by the date they enlisted, so those with an early enlistment date went home early.

But also whole units were also returning as well.

S.B