Asturias

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HMHS Asturias was a Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ocean liner that was built in Belfast in 1908 and scrapped in Japan in 1933. She was a Royal Mail Ship until 1914, when on the eve of the First World War the Admiralty requisitioned her as a hospital ship.
In 1917 a German U-boat torpedoed Asturias but her crew managed to beach her. She was raised and towed into port and spent the next two years as a ammunition hulk. In 1922–23 RMSP had her repaired and re-fitted as the cruise ship Arcadian. She was laid up in 1930 and sold for scrap in 1933.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Asturias (accessed 22/9/2017)

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I thought you may like some further detail on the 1908 voyage. My grandmother Jane Clow came to Australia on the maiden voyage of the Asturias. She kept a short diary of the trip to Sydney. They left Tilbury at 2pm on Friday 24th January 1908, stopping at Plymouth to take on more passengers. Stopped at Naples on Sunday 2nd February. and Port Said on 6th February. They visited Columbo on a Monday (undated).
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I have uploaded image of docked Asturias from unknown source and location.

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