HMAS Grantala was a passenger steamship built in England in 1903 as a coastal interstate liner for the Adelaide Steamship Company, and in 1914 requisitioned as a Royal Australian Navy hospital ship. Sir W G Armstrong, Whitworth and Co built her at its Low Walker yard as yard number 737 alongside her sister Yongala; she was launched on 28 May 1903 and completed that December. She was 350 feet long, had a single screw driven by a three cylinder triple expansion engine, reached 16 knots on trials and carried 110 first class and 180 second class passengers. As Australia's only hospital ship of the First World War she supported the landing at Rabaul. Sold to a French company in 1915 and renamed Figuig in 1917, she was scrapped at Genoa in 1934.
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In 1903 Sir WG Armstrong, Whitworth & Co built a pair of passenger and cargo steamships at its Low Walker shipyard on the River Tyne for the Adelaide Steamship Co.
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In 1903 Sir WG Armstrong, Whitworth & Co built a pair of passenger and cargo steamships at its Low Walker shipyard on the River Tyne for the Adelaide Steamship Co.
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Her sister ship Grantala was yard number 737, launched on 28 May 1903, and completed that December.
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HMAS Grantala was a passenger steamship that was built in England in 1903
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She was scrapped in Italy in 1934.
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In 1903 Sir WG Armstrong, Whitworth & Co built a pair of passenger and cargo steamships at its Low Walker shipyard on the River Tyne for the Adelaide Steamship Co.
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