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The Wandilla was a passenger ship put into service in 1913 by the Australian shipping company Adelaide Steamship Company , which was used as a hospital ship in both World Wars . The Wandilla was sold in 1921 and sank in an Allied air raid on the Libyan coast in 1942 .
history
The 7,785 GRT steamship Wandilla was built at the William Beardmore and Company shipyard in Dalmuir , Scotland , and was launched on May 25, 1912. The 125.36 meter long and 17.28 meter wide ship was built for the Adelaide Steamship Company, which was based in Adelaide . She was equipped with two quadruple expansion steam engines that made 1374 nominal horsepower and with which a top speed of 16 knots (29.6 km / h) could be achieved.
The Wandilla had two sister ships that were built at the same shipyard: the Warilda (7,713 GRT), which was sunk in the English Channel by a German submarine on August 3, 1918 , and the Willochra (7,784 GRT), which was sunk on December 18, 1929 sank after a collision with the Algonquin of the Clyde-Mallory Line in New York Harbor . The three steel- built ships each had a chimney, two masts , two propellers and were equipped with passenger accommodation for 231 passengers in the first, 120 in the second and 72 in the third class. The Wandilla was used for passenger traffic from Fremantle to Sydney .
During the First World War , many ships of the Adelaide Steamship Company were drafted for military service by the Royal Australian Navy and were given the addition of HMAT (His Majesty's Australian Transport). The Wandilla as well as the Warilda were used as hospital ships and the Willochra and Grantala as troop transports . The wandilla was used from 1916 in the English Channel and later in the Mediterranean . In 1918 the ship was returned to the Adelaide Steamship Company, but they were no longer used for it.
In 1921 the Wandilla was bought by the Bermuda & West Indies Steamship Company, a newly established division of Furness, Withy & Co. , and renamed Fort St. George . With space for 380 first-class and 50 second-class passengers, the ship supplied hotels in Bermuda with fresh water. To this end, the cargo holds were replaced by water tanks. In 1924 the steamer collided with the Olympic of the White Star Line and was taken out of service for repairs.
In 1935 the ship was sold to the Italian shipping company Lloyd Triestino and was named Cesarea . In 1938 the name was changed to Arno . In 1940 she was again converted into a hospital ship for the Regia Marina (the Royal Italian Navy). On September 10, 1942, she sank 40 miles off Tobruk on the Libyan coast after a British air raid. It was by an air torpedo an aircraft of the Royal Air Force hit and fell to the position 33 ° 14 ' N , 23 ° 23' O .