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HMHS St George
1st August 1914 Hospital Ship 
HMHS St George The Great Western Railway’s ships operated in connection with the company's trains to provide services to Ireland, the Channel Islands and France. Powers were granted by Act of Parliament for the Great Western Railway (GWR) to operate ships in 1871. The following year the company took over the ships operated by Ford and Jackson on the route between Wales and Ireland. Services were operated between Weymouth, the Channel Islands and France on the former Weymouth and Channel Islands Steam Packet Company routes. Smaller GWR vessels were also used as tenders at Plymouth and on ferry routes on the River Severn and River Dart. The railway also operated tugs and other craft at their docks in Wales and South West England.
On 30 August 1906 the GWR’s Welsh terminal was moved to a new harbour at Fishguard. It was hoped that transatlantic liners would also call en route to Liverpool but few did, Liverpool being forsaken for Southampton within a few years but this increased the number of liner calls at Plymouth. A similar change saw Rosslare become the principal railway harbour on the other side of Irish Sea although some services were still provided to Waterford. This work was undertaken in a joint venture with the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland known as the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours.
One of three ships (St. David, St. Patrick and St. George) that started the new Fishguard to Rosslare service in 1906, St George was built by Cammell Laird and Company at Birkenhead.
She was sold in May 1913 to the Canadian Pacific Railway but six years later was sold again to the Great Eastern Railway for use on their services from Harwich.
According to some records she was not used as a hospital ship in ww1 as she was sold to Canadian Pacific Line in 1913, however there are references to her and it seems she was in service as a hospital ship from 1915 to 1917.
- Hospital Ship or Ambulance Transport Service during WW1.
- Medical Staff strength.
- Officers:4
- Nurses:4
- Other:30
- Accommodation capacity.
- Officers:17
- Cots:115
- Berths:146
- Period of Service as Hospital Ship or Ambulance Transport.
- Date From:7th May 1915
- Date To:4th December 1917
- Ships Crew details:
John Doran
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Those known to have served in HMHS St George during the Great War 1914-1918. - Cardiff Michael. Cpt.
- Croft John Hector. Pte.
- Woodey Frank. Act.Ldg.Stkr. (d.16th July 1918)
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