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DEVANHA (1906)
Service dates: 1906-1928
Official number: 117400
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 16.12.1905
- Launched.
- 31.01.1906
- Registered as Devanha for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £159,249. Last of the four-strong ‘D’ class. Devanha is an Urdu word for a state of mind of indescribable admiration or love for something or someone.
- 01.03.1906
- Maiden voyage from Royal Albert Dock, London.
- 1907
- Received slight damage when she collided with Shinshu Maru in Japanese waters.
- 06.09.1914
- Left Bombay for the Mediterranean as troopship No 5.
- 03.08.1915
- Dardanelles campaign.
- 28.04.1915
- Landed the 12th Battalion of Australian troops at what was later Anzac Beach, and then steamed up the coast as a feint to draw enemy fire.
- 30.04.1915
- Converted into a hospital ship, in which capacity she was the last vessel to leave the Dardanelles.
- 05/06.1915
- At Alexandria divers reported one blade of port screw broken at the tip.
- 09.04.1916
- Picked up the last survivors of the Chantala (British India SNCo) torpedoed in the Mediterranean, and landed them in Malta.
- 06/11.1916
- Persian Gulf.
- 12.1916/06.1917
- East Africa.
- 07/09.1917
- Persian Gulf.
- 10.1917/04.1918
- East Africa.
- 05.1918/02.1919
- Bombay/Suez.
- 04.1919
- Reconverted to a troopship in London.
- 05/06.1919
- Repatriating Australian troops.
- 1920
- A lifeboat used at Gallipoli was presented to the Australian National War Memorial in Canberra.
- 02.1920
- Deadweight 8,400 tons. Draught 8.620m (28ft 3½in).
- 22.05.1925
- One return voyage London/Colombo/Melbourne/Sydney.
- 21.03.1928
- Sold for £20,500 to Sakaguchi Sadakichi Shoten K K, Japan, for demolition at Osaka.