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Ship used to carry soldiers
A troopship (also troop ship or troop transport or trooper) is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime. Troopships were often drafted
Troopship
Regional airliner by Fokker
fleet. The United States Army Parachute Team has operated a single C-31A Troopship for conducting its skydiving exhibitions since 1985. As of July 2018,
Fokker_F27_Friendship
Steam troopship of the Royal Navy
HMS Birkenhead, also referred to as HM Troopship Birkenhead or Steam Frigate Birkenhead, was one of the first iron-hulled ships built for the Royal Navy
HMS_Birkenhead_(1845)
1937 film
families. In the United States it was released with the alternative title Troopship. The film was made at Denham Studios by Alexander Korda's London Film
Farewell_Again
The Iosif Stalin-class passenger ship was a two-ship class of large turbo-electric powered passenger ships, operated by the Soviet Baltic Sea Shipping
Iosif Stalin-class passenger ship
Iosif_Stalin-class_passenger_ship
Multi-role troopships
Nicobar-class troopships are large multi-role troopships converted from merchant ships which were originally ordered by the Ministry of Shipping for service
Nicobar-class_troopship
British troopship built in 1955
Nairobi, Kenya. The ship was the first troopship built since the end of the Second World War and the largest troopship at that time to be built in the United
SS_Nevasa
Dutch ocean liner that was a US troop ship in the First World War
Netherlands in 1929. The US requisitioned her as the United States Navy troopship USS Rijndam from 1918 until 1919. She was the first of four Holland America
USS_Rijndam
Australia troopship, launched 1911
Great Britain, but due to the First World War, she was converted into a troopship. She was leased by the Australian Commonwealth Government until 5 August
HMAT_Shropshire
surge in the spread of infectious diseases, especially in the packed troopships. The first ships began to make landfall scattered across the Canadian
Aeneas_(troopship)
Passenger liner and cruise ship
During World War II, she was taken over by the German navy and used as a troopship. During the war, she survived two Allied attempts to sink her. After World
HMT_Empire_Windrush
Wise, James E; Baron, Scott (2004). Soldiers Lost at Sea: A Chronicle of Troopship Disasters. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-59114-966-8
List of ships sunk by submarines by death toll
List_of_ships_sunk_by_submarines_by_death_toll
World War II merchant ship of the United Kingdom
accommodation ship and troopship during World War II, she was seized by the Allies in 1945 and renamed Empire Jewel. She was converted to a troopship in 1946 but
SS_Empire_Fowey
The Euphrates class was a five-ship class of iron screw troopships built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s. They were used for carrying troops to India
Euphrates-class_troopship
British cargo liner sunk in 1915
her. She spent almost her entire career in ATL ownership. She became a troopship in the First World War. In 1915, a German U-boat sank her by torpedo in
SS_Marquette_(1897)
1784 – troopship 1799, hulked 1801, broken up 1816 HMS Chichester 1785 – troopship 1787, storeship 1794, sold 1810 HMS Expedition 1784 – troopship 1798
List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy
List_of_frigate_classes_of_the_Royal_Navy
British passenger ship
Navigation Company had operated a previous Dunera (1891), which served as a troopship during the Second Boer War. After sea trial in 1937, she was handed over
HMT_Dunera
19th-century troopship of the Royal Navy
HMS Orontes was a 19th-century troopship of the Royal Navy, intended for carrying troops to southern Africa and the West Indies (rather than to India
HMS_Orontes_(1862)
Chinese PLA auxiliary ship
The Daguan-class troopship (as designated by NATO) is a class of auxiliary ship in People's Republic of China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).
Daguan-class_troopship
New Zealand troopship magazines from WWI
New Zealand troopship magazines were maritime publications from the First World War, written by NZEF soldiers on their way to or from Europe and the Middle
New Zealand troopship magazines from World War I
New_Zealand_troopship_magazines_from_World_War_I
Ocean liner scrapped 1956
successful career as a liner in the 1930s, Georgic was requisitioned as a troopship in 1940. She was severely damaged and partially sunk in 1941 by a German
MV_Georgic
List of ships with the same or similar names
Glasgow, Scotland; Vancouver-based ship served the Far East; served as troopship in World War II; torpedoed and sunk off Africa by an Italian submarine
RMS_Empress_of_Canada
Naval engagements in WWII (Nov 1942)
in an atmosphere of mistrust and secrecy caused the loss of four U.S. troopships and the deaths of 462 men aboard 24 French ships opposing the invasion
Naval_Battle_of_Casablanca
Ocean liner
maiden voyage starting in June. In the 1982 Falklands War she served as a troopship. In 1997 the singer and songwriter Gerard Kenny released the single "Farewell
SS_Canberra
Plan to invade Egypt
(troopship) Dunera (troopship) Empire Fowey (troopship) Empire Gaelic (troopship) Empire Ken (troopship) Empire Parkeston (troopship) Energie (chartered
Operation_Musketeer_(1956)
38-gun troopship, previously the Italian corvette Bellona, launched at Venice in 1808. She was captured at Lissa in 1811. She served as a troopship and transport
HMS_Dover_(1811)
UK passenger liner, armed merchant cruiser, and troopship
converted into an armed merchant cruiser (AMC). She was converted into a troopship in 1943, and returned to civilian service in 1948. She was the second
HMS_Cheshire
Oak-hulled paddle-wheel steamship
Mail Steam Packet Company and was scrapped in 1856 after serving as a troopship during the Crimean War. In 1836, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, his friend Thomas
SS_Great_Western
Transatlantic ocean liner and Royal Mail Ship
completed in 1922 and served until 1955. In the Second World War she was a troopship in the Royal Navy. Samaria was scrapped in 1956. Samaria was a sister
RMS_Samaria
1897 steamship of the Dominion Line
deployed as a troopship operating between India and Malaya and in 1917 had carried American troops to Europe. She became a full time troopship in 1921 when
SS_Derbyshire
(1947) WWII troopship 1940–1945; Blue Riband, sold 1967, now a stationary hotel ship Mauretania 1939 1939–1965 Express 35,738 WWII troopship 1940–1945;
List_of_Cunard_Line_ships
Ocean liner built in Scotland
Bedford was joined by an "empress" sister ship in this convoy duty. The troopship SS Empress of Japan carried 1,981 men of the 18th Division. The convoy
RMS_Empress_of_France_(1928)
Italian ocean liner (1906–1929)
America for most of her career. During World War I she was employed as a troopship carrying United States troops to France as part of the United States Navy
SS_Re_d'Italia
Naval warfare force of the United Kingdom
two years of the war. Over 3,000 people were lost when the converted troopship Lancastria was sunk in June 1940, the greatest maritime disaster in Britain's
Royal_Navy
Hospital ship of the Royal Navy
government service than working for her owners. She served both as a troopship and as a hospital ship, prefixed HMT and HMHS respectively, before, during
HMHS_Braemar_Castle
Passenger steamship that sank after a collision south of the Isle of Wight
British 4,230 GRT passenger steamship that was built in 1905 and, as a troopship, sank after collision with great loss of life in 1917. Alexander Stephen
SS_Mendi
1866 Euphrates-class troopship
HMS Malabar was a Euphrates-class troopship launched in 1866, and the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to employ the name. She was designed to carry troops
HMS_Malabar_(1866)
Australian cruise ship (1955–1997)
out of Sydney for 22 years. Originally completed in 1957 as the British troopship Oxfordshire, it was converted to become the Fairstar in 1964 for immigrant
TSS_Fairstar
Japanese ocean liner
At the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Asama Maru was serving as a troopship and had just arrived at Saipan. In early 1942, she made several voyages
MV_Asama_Maru
United States Navy ship classification
classification for a variant of ocean-going troopship adapted to transporting invasion forces ashore. Unlike standard troopships – often drafted from the merchant
Attack_transport
British ocean liner (1906–1935)
government for military service during World War I as a hospital ship and troopship, and was later returned to Cunard in 1919. Mauretania remained in service
RMS_Mauretania_(1906)
Royal Australian Navy Majestic-class aircraft carrier
to operate aircraft was removed from Sydney. However, on seven of the troopship's twenty-five voyages to Vietnam, she carried a flight of four Westland
HMAS_Sydney_(R17)
Sunken ship from the UK
liner and Royal Mail Ship. In World War II she was requisitioned as a troopship. In 1942 a German submarine sank her in the Indian Ocean with the loss
RMS_Nova_Scotia_(1926)
following the start of the First World War, she was converted into a troopship and later, in 1916, she was converted into a hospital ship. Her identical
HMAT_Warilda
Canadian ocean liner
day. During World War II, Duchess of Richmond was requisitioned as a troopship, and also played a role in transporting the Tizard Mission, which brought
RMS_Empress_of_Canada_(1928)
British ocean liner
Ltd, Dalmuir for the Anchor Line. She was requisitioned for use as a troopship in the Second World War, surviving a torpedo attack. In 1953 she was requisitioned
RMS_Cameronia
1931 ocean liner
and very similar to Lurline. During World War II Monterey was used as a troopship operated by Matson as agents of the War Shipping Administration (WSA)
SS_Monterey
Ship that transports and launches drones
Logistics Landing Ship Medium Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship Vehicle Troopship Patrol craft Armed boarding steamer Armed yacht Coastal motor boat Corvette
Drone_carrier
Liner, launched 1920
German and Dutch owners and operators. In 1940 she was converted into a troopship. In 1941 a Luftwaffe air attack crippled her in the Mediterranean, so
SS_Pennland
US cargo ship class of WWII
on 200 Liberty ships for redeployment to the Pacific. The need for the troopship conversions persisted into the immediate postwar period in order to return
Liberty_ship
completed in 1941 but immediately sold to the Italian government as a troopship. The second ship served for three years in the Regia Marina and Kriegsmarine
MS_Stockholm_(1940)
Frigate of the Royal Navy
commissioned soon thereafter. In 1798, she was renamed Pallas and employed as a troopship. She was broken up in 1803. Captain Charles Fielding commissioned Minerva
HMS_Minerva_(1780)
British Navy ship
class of 911 tons, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1785 and completed as a troopship. She was subsequently converted to a storeship. She also served as a guardship
HMS_Gorgon_(1785)
Chinese cargo ship class
versions of this class, including cargo ship, ambulance transport, and troopship versions. Although two units have retired in early 2020s, and its successor
Qiongsha-class_cargo_ship
Ship of the line of the French Navy
construction was suspended for many years before she was converted into a troopship in 1863. The ship evacuated French troops in 1866–1867 after the defeat
French_ship_Intrépide_(1864)
Ocean liner (1913–1946)
mistakenly as having been torpedoed, when in fact it was the British troopship Justicia that had actually fallen victim to German submarines. On 29 September
SS_Vaterland_(1913)
US Maritime Service vessel
number: 9910313 General characteristics Class & type NSMV, Training Ship/Troopship Length 160.05 m (525.1 ft) Beam 27 m (89 ft) Height 38.4 m (126 ft) Draft
Empire_State_VII
Troopship leaving the Pinkenba Wharf in Brisbane during World War I
Queensland_in_World_War_I
Japanese cargo liner and troopship
ship was requisitioned by the Japanese Army and turned into an armed troopship. On her final voyage, Lisbon Maru was being used to transport prisoners
Lisbon_Maru
Ship of the line of the Royal Navy
Indian Ocean. In 1812, Leopard had her guns removed and was converted to a troopship. On 28 June 1814 she was en route from Britain to Quebec, carrying a contingent
HMS_Leopard_(1790)
Company which was built for service between the UK and India, and as a troopship. After becoming a hospital ship in the First World War, she ran aground
SS_Rohilla
German World War II submarine
Laconia incident in September 1942, during which she torpedoed and sank the troopship Laconia west of Africa. Whilst rescuing the survivors and flying the Red
German_submarine_U-156_(1941)
Ocean liner (in service 1912–1948)
PTTO (later Gdynia America Line) and as a UK Ministry of War Transport troopship, and as Empire Penryn after World War II. The liner was built in Glasgow
SS_Czar
Passenger cargo ship
Kaisha. Serving as a troopship in World War II, Rakuyō Maru was torpedoed and sunk by USS Sealion on 12 September 1944. The troopship was part of convoy
SS_Rakuyō_Maru
Belgian ocean liner converted into an Allied troop ship during WWII
the Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo. She was converted for use as a troopship in the Second World War, and on 24 December 1944, while sailing between
SS_Léopoldville_(1928)
1863 Royal Navy troopship
HMS Tamar was a Royal Navy troopship built by the Samuda Brothers at Cubitt Town, London, and launched in Britain in 1863. She served as a supply ship
HMS_Tamar_(1863)
American ocean liner (1929–1958)
1938. From 1942 to 1946 she was the War Shipping Administration operated troopship Argentina. She was laid up in 1958 and scrapped in 1964. Pennsylvania
SS_Argentina_(1929)
Cargo ships built by the United States Maritime Commission
were taken over by the MARCOM. Eighty-one ships were built as cargo or troopships in four shipyards: Kaiser Richmond, California (35 ships); Kaiser Vancouver
Type_C4_ship
Torpedo (PT) boat Q-ship Seaplane tender Submarine including U-boat Midget submarine Submarine aircraft carrier Submarine chaser Survey ship Troopship
List of types of naval vessels
List_of_types_of_naval_vessels
Passenger cargo ship sunk during WWII
launched in 1924. She was sunk during the Second World War while acting as a troopship, targeted by a submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Indian Ocean
SS_Tilawa
Unofficial maritime code of conduct
invocations of the concept include during the 1852 evacuation of the Royal Navy troopship HMS Birkenhead, the 1857 sinking of the ship SS Central America, and most
Women_and_children_first
Italian ocean liner
America for most of her career. During World War I she was employed as a troopship carrying United States troops to France as part of the United States Navy
SS_Duca_d'Aosta
Italian ocean liner later converted to troopship and later hospital ship
7–8. June 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2021. Charles, Roland W. (1947). Troopships of World War II (PDF). Washington: The Army Transportation Association
MS_Saturnia
Calendar year
ocean liner SS Normandie catches fire while being converted into the troopship USS Lafayette (AP-53) for WWII at Pier 88 in New York City; she capsizes
1942
American actor (born 1945)
Starlancer Admiral Petrov 2001 Conquest: Frontier Wars Spinelayer, ESP Coil, Troopship 2003 Deus Ex: Invisible War Generic Citizen No. 5, WTO Guard #1 2007 Metroid
Edwin_Neal
non-naval vessels in Government service, for example hospital ships and troopships. There is some evidence they flew the Admiralty Ensign, now known as the
List_of_ships_at_Dunkirk
1911 as Waimana for Shaw, Savill & Albion Line Ltd. Requisitioned as a troopship during the First World War. Detained at Newport News, Virginia on 28 August
List_of_Empire_ships_(U–Z)
Dutch-owned ocean liner that was a US Navy troopship in 1918 and 1919
from April 1918 until October 1919, when she was a United States Navy troopship. In 1909 KHL took delivery of two new twin-screw sister ships for its
USS_Zeelandia
1921 Harris-class attack transport
President Pierce and then President Roosevelt. Requisitioned for service as a troopship with the US Navy during World War II, she was renamed USS Joseph T. Dickman
SS_President_Roosevelt_(1921)
British ocean liner from 1922 to 1942
merchant cruiser, and in 1941 she was converted again, this last time into a troopship. She was sunk in the South Atlantic Ocean on 12 September 1942 by U-156
RMS_Laconia_(1921)
British ocean liner
During World War II she was requisitioned by the Admiralty to serve as a troopship. After the war she resumed passenger service, eventually being scrapped
RMS_Arundel_Castle
Victory ship of the United States
Hagerstown Victory was one of 97 cargo Victory ships converted to a troopship. Hagerstown Victory was one of many of the new 10,500-ton class ships
SS_Hagerstown_Victory
Type 052 destroyer of the PLA Navy
Nanjiao 90 class Transport ships Type 081 Red Flag class Darong class Troopships Daguan class Darong class AP/APT Qiongsha class Range support & target
Chinese_destroyer_Qingdao
British shipping line
September 1939. The passenger liner Anselm, which was requisitioned as a troopship in 1940, was sunk by torpedo in July 1941 with the loss of 254 lives.
Alfred_Booth_and_Company
Proposed Kriegsmarine aircraft carriers
project was abandoned in November 1942. She returned to service as a troopship, only to be sunk by a mine in the western Baltic. Elbe actually began
Jade-class_aircraft_carrier
Submarine capable of launching cruise missiles
Logistics Landing Ship Medium Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship Vehicle Troopship Patrol craft Armed boarding steamer Armed yacht Coastal motor boat Corvette
Cruise-missile_submarine
US-built landing craft used extensively in amphibious landings in World War II
Logistics Landing Ship Medium Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship Vehicle Troopship Patrol craft Armed boarding steamer Armed yacht Coastal motor boat Corvette
LCVP_(United_States)
Type of small to medium-sized warship
Logistics Landing Ship Medium Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship Vehicle Troopship Patrol craft Armed boarding steamer Armed yacht Coastal motor boat Corvette
Light_cruiser
Retired British ocean liner
claimed it. With the outbreak of World War II, she was converted into a troopship and ferried Allied soldiers during the conflict. On one voyage in 1943
RMS_Queen_Mary
British passenger liner and troopship
Liverpool on the night of on 21/22 December 1940. While sailing as a troopship, the Llangibby Castle was torpedoed on 16 January 1942 by the German submarine
MV_Llangibby_Castle
Ship
Montrose whilst in service as a troopship c 1900-1903 History United Kingdom Name Montrose Owner 1897: African Steamship Co 1900: Elder, Dempster & Co
SS_Montrose_(1897)
Greek passengership company
operated transatlantic voyages until Greece entered World War II, becoming a troopship for the Allies. The line continued to operate transatlantic and other
Greek_Line
Topics referred to by the same term
Rochambeau, a French transatlantic liner 1911–1934 USS Rochambeau, a US Navy troopship during World War II This disambiguation page lists articles associated
Rochambeau
American politician and historian (1922–2012)
which to fill downtime, especially during the trip overseas on a slow troopship. In September 1944 McGovern joined the 741st Squadron of the 455th Bombardment
George_McGovern
Vizeadmiral of the German Navy
Troopship Gallia
Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière
Lothar_von_Arnauld_de_la_Perière
US steamship sunk in the First World War
1914, and ran it between New York and Mexico via Cuba. In 1898 it was a troopship in the Spanish–American War. Vigilancia was a passenger and cargo ship
SS_Vigilancia
Class of US cargo ship, 1940s
Japanese kamikaze attack in April 1945. Many Victory ships were converted to troopships to bring US soldiers home at the end of World War II as part of Operation
Victory_ship
13,936 gross register tons. She spent her entire career operating as a troopship in the First World War and was wrecked in 1918 while under tow following
RMS_Aurania_(1916)
Transatlantic luxury liner (1932–1965)
capital city. On 6 June 1941, the Washington was commissioned as the troopship USS Mount Vernon. In 1947 one deck was restored to prewar condition and
SS_Washington
Ocean liner (1938–1968)
ever built for a record 56 years. She entered service in March 1940 as a troopship in the Second World War, and did not make her first commercial voyage
RMS_Queen_Elizabeth
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Lion, Young of lion
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Arabic, Assamese, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Muslim, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Traditional
Hope; Devoted to Love; Beloved
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Humanity; King of Men
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Beautiful woman
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A tree
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Tamil
Drop of water, Point
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n.
A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.