Torpedoed by German U-boat U-55 on 4 January 1918. Wreck lies approximately 19 mi (31 km) off Hartland Point in 200 ft (61 m) of water POS – 50.55N 04.49W.[1]
General characteristics
Tonnage
7308 tons[2]
Length
456 ft (139 m)
Beam
56.2 ft (17.1 m)
Draught
30 ft (9.1 m)
Installed power
9,344 shp (6,968 kW)
Propulsion
1 × single-stage Parsons steam turbine
3 × shafts
Speed
18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
HMHS Rewa (His Majesty's Hospital ship) was a steamship originally built for the British-India Steam Navigation Company for their mail and passenger service but requisitioned in August 1914 and fitted out for use as a British hospital ship during the First World War. On 4 January 1918, she was hit and sunk by a torpedo from the German U-boat U-55.[3]
^pg 28 - A. J. Tennent (March 2006). British Merchant Ships Sunk by U-boats in World War One (2006 ed.). Periscope Publishing Ltd. p. 258. ISBN 1-904381-36-7.
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^pg 285 - R.H. Gibson, Maurice Prendergast (November 2002). The German Submarine War 1914–1918 (2002 ed.). Periscope Publishing Ltd. p. 438. ISBN 1-904381-08-1.
^"War of the U-Boats" (PDF). The New York Times. 28 July 1918. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
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