Help with identifying a WW1 Hospital Ship.

Hi everyone

I am struggling to read this part of a WW1 RA Gunners service record where, after multiple bouts of dysentry, he was invalided to the UK from service with the British Salonika Force (BSF) in 1919.

The writing looks like it might be "HS" (Hospital Ship) but I can make out the name.



According to Wikipedia, this is a list of possible Hospital Ships from WW1

• HMHS Aberdonian
• HMHS Agadir
• HMHS Albion
• HMHS Alexandra
• HMHS Anglia
• HMHS Aquitania
• HMHS Araguaya
• HMHS Assaye
• HMHS Asturias
• HMHS Berbice
• HMHS Brighton
• HMHS Britannic
• HMHS Cambria
• HMHS Carisbrook Castle
• HMHS Cecilia
• HMHS China
• HMHS Copenhagen
• HMHS Delta
• HMHS Devanha
• HMHS Dieppe
• HMHS Donegal
• HMHS Dongola
• HMHS Dover Castle
• HMHS Drina
• HMHS Dunluce Castle
• HMHS Dunvegan Castle
• HMHS Ebani
• HMHS Egypt
• HMHS Ellora
• HMHS Erin
• HMHS Erinpura
• HMHS Essequibo
• HMHS Formosa
• HMHS Galeka
• HMHS Gascon
• HMHS Glenart Castle
• HMHS Glengorm Castle
• HMHS Gloucester Castle
• HMHS Goorkha
• HMHS Grantala
• HMHS Grantully Castle
• HMHS Grianaig
• HMHS Guildford Castle
• HMHS Herefordshire
• HMHS Kalyan
• HMHS Kanowna
• HMHS Karapara
• HMHS Karoola
• HMHS Kildonan Castle
• HMHS Kyarra
• HMHS Lanfranc
• HMHS Letitia (1912), which served at Gallipoli.[4][5]
• HMHS Liberty
• HMHS Llandovery Castle
• HMHS Loyalty
• HMHS Madras
• HMHS Magic II
• HMHS Maheno
• HMHS Marama
• HMHS Mauretania
• HMHS Morea
• HMHS Neuralia
• HMHS Nevasa
• HMHS Newhaven
• HMHS Oxfordshire
• HMHS Panama
• HMHS Plassy
• HMHS Queen Alexandra
• HMHS Rewa
• HMHS Rohilla
• HMHS Salta
• HMHS Sheelah
• HMHS Sicilia
• HMHS Somali
• HMHS Soudan
• HMHS St. Andrew
• HMHS St. Denis
• HMHS St. George
• HMHS St. Margaret of Scotland
• HMHS St. Patrick
• HMHS Sunbeam
• HMHS Syria
• HMHS Tagus
• HMHS Takada
• HMHS Valdivia
• HMHS Varela
• HMHS Varsova
• HMHS Vasna
• HMHS Vita
• HMHS Wandilla
• HMHS Warilda
• HMHS Western Australia

Thanks in advance

Gus

 

Hi Gus,

I thought it looked a bit like Czaritza and then found this postcard on eBay. Not a hospitalship though:

 

Wow. Great Spot.

Maybe he "HS" should be "SS"

Thanks ever so much.

Gus

 

Maybe try the Great War forum ?? - SALONIKA HOSPITALS

TD

 

I agree with Bamboo it is CZARITZA built 1915 but she was requisitioned as a troop transport not a hospital ship - she was in Salonika waters at least in Jan/Feb of 1919 probably other times too.
Regards
Hugh

 

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