HMHS Llandovery Castle
HMHS Llandovery Castle, built in 1914 in Glasgow as RMS Llandovery Castle for the Union-Castle Line, was one of five Canadian hospital ships that served in the First World War. On a voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool, England, the ship was torpedoed off southern Ireland on 27 June 1918. Twenty-four people survived the sinking, while 234 doctors, nurses and patients were killed in the attack. In terms of the number of dead, the sinking was the most significant Canadian naval disaster of the war. The incident became renowned internationally as one of the war’s worst atrocities. After the war, the case of Llandovery Castle was one of six British cases presented at the Leipzig trials.
Wikipage redirect
primaryTopic
HMHS Llandovery Castle
HMHS Llandovery Castle, built in 1914 in Glasgow as RMS Llandovery Castle for the Union-Castle Line, was one of five Canadian hospital ships that served in the First World War. On a voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool, England, the ship was torpedoed off southern Ireland on 27 June 1918. Twenty-four people survived the sinking, while 234 doctors, nurses and patients were killed in the attack. In terms of the number of dead, the sinking was the most significant Canadian naval disaster of the war. The incident became renowned internationally as one of the war’s worst atrocities. After the war, the case of Llandovery Castle was one of six British cases presented at the Leipzig trials.
length (mm)
has abstract
Die RMS Llandovery Castle (I) ...... eekrieg des Ersten Weltkriegs.
@de
El HMHS Llandovery Castle fue ...... con el RMS Llanstephan Castle.
@es
HMHS Llandovery Castle, built ...... esented at the Leipzig trials.
@en
Zatopienie HMHS Llandovery Cas ...... jennych popełnionych na morzu.
@pl
إتش إم إتش إس أندوفري كاسيل (ب ...... لمانية، صُنعت في ميناء غلاسكو.
@ar
builder
commissioning date
1916-07-26
country
length (μ)
ship beam (μ)
1.92024e+1
ship launched
1913-09-03
status
Requisitioned, 1916
Sunk by, 27 June 1918
top speed (kmh)
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
742,749,030
Hide header
Ship capacity
*As ocean liner:
*429 passengers
*As hospital ship:
*622 beds and 102 medical staff
Ship caption
"HM Hospital Ship, Llandovery Castle"
Ship complement
Ship completed
Ship country
United Kingdom
Ship image
Ship propulsion
*Quadruple expansion steam engines
*
*Twin screws
Ship yard number
subject
hypernym
point
comment
Die RMS Llandovery Castle (I) ...... nd Südafrika eingesetzt wurde.
@de
El HMHS Llandovery Castle fue ...... con el RMS Llanstephan Castle.
@es
HMHS Llandovery Castle, built ...... esented at the Leipzig trials.
@en
Zatopienie HMHS Llandovery Cas ...... osób w tym 164 członków załogi
@pl
إتش إم إتش إس أندوفري كاسيل (ب ...... لمانية، صُنعت في ميناء غلاسكو.
@ar
label
HMHS Llandovery Castle
@en
HMHS Llandovery Castle
@es
Llandovery Castle (Schiff, 1914)
@de
Zatopienie HMHS Llandovery Castle
@pl
إتش إم إتش إس أندوفري كاسيل
@ar
sameAs
lat
long
wasDerivedFrom
isPrimaryTopicOf
name
Llandovery Castle
@en
RMSLlandovery Castle
@en