WW1 australian Naval uniforms
AHS Kanowna
1915. Captain of the Australian United Steam Navigation Company AHS Kanowna.
The Australian United Steam Navigation Company (AUSNC) was an Australian shipping company from 1887 to 1961. It was formed by the merger of the Australasian Steam Navigation Company and the Queensland Steam Shipping Company and their fleets in 1887.
The Australian Hospital Ship (AHS) 'Kanowna' was a AUSNC ship which was a twin-screw steamer built in London in 1903 and was manned by AUSNC Australian officers and crew until she was lost in Bass Strait in 1929. During the First World War it was requisitioned as a troop transport ship, taking the first Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) to German New Guinea. In 1915 it was converted into a hospital ship with accommodation for 452 patients, 88 nursing staff and 114 crew. From 1915 to 1917 it transported British, Australian and New Zealand sick and wounded between Australia, England and Egypt. Commonwealth control of the ship ceased in 1919.
The Australian United Steam Navigation Company (AUSNC) was an Australian shipping company from 1887 to 1961. It was formed by the merger of the Australasian Steam Navigation Company and the Queensland Steam Shipping Company and their fleets in 1887.
The Australian Hospital Ship (AHS) 'Kanowna' was a AUSNC ship which was a twin-screw steamer built in London in 1903 and was manned by AUSNC Australian officers and crew until she was lost in Bass Strait in 1929. During the First World War it was requisitioned as a troop transport ship, taking the first Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) to German New Guinea. In 1915 it was converted into a hospital ship with accommodation for 452 patients, 88 nursing staff and 114 crew. From 1915 to 1917 it transported British, Australian and New Zealand sick and wounded between Australia, England and Egypt. Commonwealth control of the ship ceased in 1919.
