SS Talamba was a British ocean liner which was converted to a hospital ship in 1941.

SS Talamba while sailing from Singapore, an attempt to rush the ship’s bridge by the Chinese deportees but was contained and escorted by HMS Carlisle to Hong Kong.

HMHS Talamba assisted in the evacuation of Singapore in January 1942 after the Imperial Japanese have started their conquest over Asia, part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

During the amphibious invasion of Sicily, she was attacked twice by the Italian Regia Aeronautica and German Luftwaffe.

A bomb fell into her engine room which caused an explosion that killed 5 of her crew but all 400 wounded were evacuated to safety.