We were in the water for some time and then someone shouted to get back on the
troopship, which was sinking slowly, as HMS Eggesford was on the starboard side picking up survivors.
As soon as World War II was over, she sailed to Europe in a 'recycled'
troopship with a rather vague aim of 'wanting to help'.
These four men worked together to encourage, offer counsel, and keep up the morale of the men aboard the ill-fated
troopship Dorchester.
In November she was taken over by the War Shipping Administration and converted into a
troopship with a capacity of 1,146 troops.
He finally sailed with a
troopship bound for Pondicherry, but the fort had fallen and his ship was forced to turn back.
The regiment - motto Cymru am Byth (Wales for Ever) - showed particular resilience after 51 were killed on
troopship Sir Galahad in the Falklands.
The announcement from the Defense Ministry came in the wake of Sunday's attempted attack on a chartered
troopship carrying 1,200 government soldiers to the war zone in the north.
Although horrified by the Boer War, she volunteered for service as a nurse in South Africa and arrived in Cape Town on a
troopship at the end of March.
His collections of verse include Tomorrow's Tide (1932); Personal Note (1941), a wartime narrative; Grey Ship Moving (1945), with the title poem telling of a
troopship out of Halifax; The Flowing Summer (1947), the story of a boy's return home to the seashore.
The 14,651 ton British
troopship, The Empire Windrush, at Southampton
She became a
troopship and, later, a hospital ship during World War I before returning to the Liverpool-New York route in 1919.