HMHS Anglia
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SS Anglia was a was a UK twin screw passenger steamship. She was launched in Scotland in 1899 for the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). She was requisitioned as an armed boarding steamer in 1914, and converted into a hospital ship in 1915. On 17 November 1915, a mine laid by a German U-boat sank her in the English Channel.
Description
In 1899 – 1900, William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton built a pair of passenger ferries for the LNWR. Yard number 618 was launched on 10 October 1899 as Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found., yard number 619 was launched on 20 December as Anglia, and both ships were completed in 1900.[1][2] Both were sister ships of Template:TSS, which Denny Brothers had built in 1897.[3]
AngliaTemplate:'s registered length was Template:Cvt, her beam was Template:Cvt, and her depth was Template:Cvt. Her tonnages were Template:GRT and Template:NRT. She had twin screws, each driven by a four-cylinder triple expansion engine. Their combined power was rated at 424 NHP,[4] and gave her a speed of 22 knots (41 km/h).[2] The LNWR registered her at Dublin. Her UK official number was 111031, and her code letters were RPKB.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
At first her route was between Holyhead and Dublin North Wall. From 1908 her route was between Holyhead and Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire).[citation needed] She was equipped with submarine signalling by 1910,[4] and wireless telegraphy by 1912.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. By 1914, her call sign was GRE.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Loss
With the outbreak of war in August 1914, Anglia was requisitioned as an armed boarding steamer. In April 1915 she was converted into a hospital ship.[2]
On 17 November 1915, she was returning from Calais to Dover, carrying 390 injured officers and soldiers. At around 12:30 pm, 1 nautical mile (2 km) east of Folkestone Gate, she struck a mine and sank in 15 minutes. It was one of a number of mines laid by the German U-boat Template:SMU. The nearby torpedo gunboat Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. helped evacuate the passengers and crew. Despite the assistance of the nearby collier Lusitania, 134 people died in the sinking.[5][6][7]
Her stockless anchor was made into a monument at Holyhead.[8]
In October 2014, there were calls for AngliaTemplate:'s wreck to be designated a war grave, which would protect it under the Protection of Military Remains Act, 1986.[7] The declaration was made in March 2017, making it illegal to remove or disturb any human remains at the wreck site.[9]
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hibernia". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 27 March 2026.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Anglia". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 27 March 2026.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cambria". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 27 March 2026.
- ^ a b Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."British Hospital Ship sunk, 85 lost". The New York Times. 18 November 1915. p. 1 – via Times Machine.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wreck Sites / Info". Shorncliffe Dive Centre. 2009. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."WW1 ship wreck off Folkestone 'should be war grave'". BBC News. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Anglia anchor memorial, Holyhead". History Points. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."First World War Shipwreck Declared War Grave". Archaeology Magazine. 6 March 2017.
Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Duckworth, Christian; Langmuir, Graham (1968) [1948]. Railway and Other Steamers. Prescot: T Stephenson & Sons.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping. Vol. I.–Steamers. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. 1910 – via Internet Archive.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping. Vol. II.–Steamers. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. 1912 – via Internet Archive.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The Marconi Press Agency Ltd (1914). The Year Book of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony. London: The Marconi Press Agency Ltd.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mercantile Navy List. London: Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. 1901 – via Crew List Index Project.
External links
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