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TSMV Wanganella (2755)

Details:

Title

TSMV Wanganella (2755),

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Darwin Harbour,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Merchant Navy,

Service branch

Passenger Ship, Hospital Ship,

Unit

TSMV Wanganella (2755),

Parent unit

Huddart Parker & Co. Pty. Ltd.,

Date arrived in NT

1944-11-28,

Date left the NT

1944-11-30,

History

Wanganella was requisitioned as a hospital ship on 20 May 1941. Between 1941 and 1946 AHS Wanganella carried wounded and sick evacuees from the Middle East, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Borneo and the South Pacific. She travelled over 251 011 nautical miles (464 872 km) and transported 13 385 wounded.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Merchant Navy, Australia, Hospital ship, Passengers, TSMV Wanganella (2755),

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C202731 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 118509, Second World War, 1939-1945], http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/WAIPORI_TO_WEAR.pdf [TSMV Wanganella (2755) p.96-99], http://www.ssmaritime.com/Wanganella.htm [TSMV Wanganella], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=31049 [TSMV Wanganella (2755)],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843592,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843904