A troopship (also troop ship or troop transport or trooper) is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime. Troopships were often drafted...
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surge in the spread of infectious diseases, especially in the packed troopships. The first ships began to make landfall scattered across the Canadian...
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Nicobar-class troopships are large multi-role troopships converted from merchant ships which were originally ordered by the Ministry of Shipping for service...
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Fokker F27 Friendship (redirect from C-31A Troopship)
fleet. The United States Army Parachute Team has operated a single C-31A Troopship for conducting its skydiving exhibitions since 1985. As of July 2018,...
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HMS Birkenhead (1845) (redirect from HM Troopship Birkenhead)
HMS Birkenhead, also referred to as HM Troopship Birkenhead or Steam Frigate Birkenhead, was one of the first iron-hulled ships built for the Royal Navy...
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Iosif Stalin-class passenger ship (redirect from Soviet Troopship VT-521 (1938))
The Iosif Stalin-class passenger ship was a two-ship class of large turbo-electric powered passenger ships, operated by the Soviet Baltic Sea Shipping...
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Farewell Again (redirect from Troopship (film))
families. In the United States it was released with the alternative title Troopship. The film was made at Denham Studios by Alexander Korda's London Film...
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MV Asama Maru (1928) (redirect from Japanese troopship Asama Maru)
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Asama Maru was serving as a troopship and had just arrived at Saipan. In early 1942, she made several voyages...
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SS Marquette (1897) (redirect from Marquette (troopship))
SS Marquette was a British troopship of 7,057 tons which was torpedoed and sunk in the Aegean Sea 36 nautical miles (67 km) south of Salonica, Greece...
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two years of the war. Over 3,000 people were lost when the converted troopship Lancastria was sunk in June 1940, the greatest maritime disaster in Britain's...
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USS Rijndam (section Troopship)
Netherlands in 1929. The US requisitioned her as the United States Navy troopship USS Rijndam from 1918 until 1919. She was the first of four Holland America...
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The Euphrates class was a five-ship class of iron screw troopships built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s. They were used for carrying troops to India...
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Wise, James E; Baron, Scott (2004). Soldiers Lost at Sea: A Chronicle of Troopship Disasters. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-59114-966-8...
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HMAT Shropshire (section Time as a troopship)
Great Britain, but due to the First World War, she was converted into a troopship. She was leased by the Australian Commonwealth Government until 5 August...
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assembled; the solution was an extensive program of building new freighters. Troopships were too fast for the submarines and did not travel the North Atlantic...
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INS Andamans is a Nicobar-class troopship. These large multi-role troop ships were converted from merchant ships which were originally ordered by the...
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HMT Dunera (section Early service as a troopship)
Navigation Company had operated a previous Dunera (1891), which served as a troopship during the Second Boer War. After sea trial in 1937, she was handed over...
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Torpedo boat Patrol Torpedo (PT) boat Q-ship Seaplane tender Submarine including U-boat Submarine aircraft carrier Submarine chaser Survey ship Troopship...
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HMS Cheshire (section Troopship)
converted into an armed merchant cruiser (AMC). She was converted into a troopship in 1943, and returned to civilian service in 1948. She was the second...
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completed in 1922 and served until 1955. In the Second World War she was a troopship in the Royal Navy. Samaria was scrapped in 1956. Samaria was a sister...
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Logistics Landing Ship Medium Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship Vehicle Troopship Patrol craft Armed boarding steamer Armed yacht Coastal motor boat Corvette...
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SS Duca d'Aosta (section U.S. troopship duties)
America for most of her career. During World War I she was employed as a troopship carrying United States troops to France as part of the United States Navy...
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Japanese kamikaze attack in April 1945. Many Victory ships were converted to troopships to bring US soldiers home at the end of World War II as part of Operation...
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killed in the torpedoing of the ferry SS Sussex, which was mistaken for a troopship by SM UB-29. The US threatened to sever diplomatic ties, which persuaded...
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a historical fort in Taiwan USS Zeelandia (Id. No. 2507), a U.S. Navy troopship Zeelandia, Guyana, a village in Guyana Zealandia (disambiguation) Zeeland...
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ships – ammunition ships, replenishment oilers, repair ships, storeships, troopships, etc. Hospital ships Some of these are discussed in the following sections...
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SS Manhattan (1931) (section Troopship Service)
Roosevelt received an urgent and most secret message asking for US Navy troopships manned by Navy crews and escorted by U.S.N. fighting ships to carry British...
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Logistics Landing Ship Medium Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship Vehicle Troopship Patrol craft Armed boarding steamer Armed yacht Coastal motor boat Corvette...
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passengers that the liner was to be transferred to the British Admiralty for troopship duties on arrival in New York. His secretary from 1917, Cynthia Asquith...
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