HMAT Shropshire

HMAT Shropshire (His Majesty's Australian Transport), originally SS Shropshire, was a 11,911-ton vessel, built by John Brown and Company in Clydebank, Glasgow, for the Federal Steam Navigation Company.

[2] She was employed on passenger and meat trade between New Zealand and Great Britain, but due to the First World War, she was converted into a troopship.

[3][4] She was leased by the Australian Commonwealth Government until 5 August 1917, when the British Admiralty took over control of the ship.

[2] On 11 December 1940, it became a casualty of World War Two, when it was torpedoed by the German U-boat submarine U-49 off St Kilda, with 104 rescued and 21 lives lost.

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Group portrait of officers of the Australian Field Artillery , in front of the Great Sphinx and pyramids at Giza , Egypt . All the officers embarked on HMAT Shropshire from Melbourne on 20 October 1914.