Hospital ships photographs

Tonym · 07-09-2007, 06:05 PM

Can any member offer photographs of Hospital Ships 'Newfoundland' - 'Talamba' and 'Amsterdam' or advise please where I can locate them. No luck on Google.

Thanks in anticipation

Tony

von Poop · 07-09-2007, 06:33 PM

Here's Talamba, from IWM Collections Online: Search Photographs Archive

Newfoundland, so far, is only turning up a Cruiser, and searching for Amsterdam is being queered by a certain Dutch city.
Searching for HMHS on there turns up lots of entries, you just might spot one of them there.

Cheers,
Adam.

Hugh MacLean · 07-09-2007, 06:50 PM

Tony,

Photos of NEWFOUNDLAND but not in hospital livery:

http://www.library.mun.ca/qeii/cns/p...oto0305016.jpg

http://www.library.mun.ca/qeii/cns/p...oto0305076.jpg

AMSTERDAM official number 161037 mined 7/8/1944.

http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum/Ol...sterdam-05.jpg

Regards
Hugh

Tonym · 07-09-2007, 08:24 PM

Adam and Hugh

Thanks, most grateful.

Hugh, the unliveried ones are OK but can always be changed should liveried ones materialise.

Well done to you both

Best wishes

Tony

spidge · 08-09-2007, 12:34 AM

Hope this is the one you are looking for!

Newfoundland Hospital Ship No 38.jpg

spidge · 08-09-2007, 01:16 AM

Here is one of Talamba without the IWM mark.

Talamba Hospital Ship ww2.jpg

SS. Talamba

Shown here as a Hospital Ship - bombed and sunk off Sicily while operating as hospital ship; loss of 5 lives. 8,018 tons

Built: 1924 by R&W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co., Ltd. Hebburn.
Tonnage: 8,018 g, 3,844 nt, 8,100 dwt.
Engines: Twin screw, 2 x Triple expansion four cylinder,, 8,000 IHP, 16.5 knots by Builder.
Passengers: 56 1st Class, 72 2nd Class, 2,777 Deck and Crew of 175.
Launched 16th July 1924, completed 2nd October 1924, Yard No. 533.

Talamba is a town near Multan in the Punjab, now Pakistan.

Tonym · 08-09-2007, 07:50 PM

Good on yer Spidge!

Does that sound like 'Thanks' in Aussie?

Best wishes, Tony

strongbow · 24-10-2007, 11:50 PM

Does anyone have a picture or any information on the hospital ship 'St. David'? One of my ancestors was Chief Engineer and was awarded the OBE from George VI. The story is that he helped free the ships fouled screws while the ship was at Dunkirk during the evacuation.

von Poop · 26-10-2007, 01:27 PM

Had a look and presumably she's the 'St. David' built in '32 and sunk at Anzio in '44?
Seems from here that she was sunk by an HS293 glide bomb, quite uncommon, though perhaps not at Anzio as it seems a few were thrown about.
96 lives lost and one of the attacking planes shot down by liberty ship 'Bret Harte'.
There's a couple of 'peoples war' references to her too (one of which refers to a Capt. Thompson, Dunkirk GC winner who later went on to serve on the St. David).

Can't seem to find reference to her presence at Dunkirk or a picture of her I'm afraid, or even one of her sister ship St Andrew.

Cheers,
Adam.

Tonym · 26-10-2007, 03:48 PM

Strongbow

I have a picture in Hospital Livery but can't work out how to post it, not as straight forward as GWF. If you send me your email I will do it that way

Tony

07-09-2007, 06:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
Tonym Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: East Sussex Posts: 57	Hospital ships photographs Can any member offer photographs of Hospital Ships 'Newfoundland' - 'Talamba' and 'Amsterdam' or advise please where I can locate them. No luck on Google. Thanks in anticipation Tony __________________ Sgt. J.V. Murphy, Cameron Highlanders, DOW, Monte Cassino, March 1944

07-09-2007, 06:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 8,098	Here's Talamba, from IWM Collections Online: Search Photographs Archive Newfoundland, so far, is only turning up a Cruiser, and searching for Amsterdam is being queered by a certain Dutch city. Searching for HMHS on there turns up lots of entries, you just might spot one of them there. Cheers, Adam. __________________ It's only the Internet. Last edited by von Poop; 07-09-2007 at 06:37 PM.

07-09-2007, 06:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
Hugh MacLean Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Scotland Posts: 71	Newfoundland Tony, Photos of NEWFOUNDLAND but not in hospital livery: http://www.library.mun.ca/qeii/cns/p...oto0305016.jpg http://www.library.mun.ca/qeii/cns/p...oto0305076.jpg AMSTERDAM official number 161037 mined 7/8/1944. http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum/Ol...sterdam-05.jpg Regards Hugh Last edited by Hugh MacLean; 07-09-2007 at 07:32 PM. Reason: update

07-09-2007, 08:24 PM	#4 (permalink)
Tonym Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: East Sussex Posts: 57	Adam and Hugh Thanks, most grateful. Hugh, the unliveried ones are OK but can always be changed should liveried ones materialise. Well done to you both Best wishes Tony __________________ Sgt. J.V. Murphy, Cameron Highlanders, DOW, Monte Cassino, March 1944

08-09-2007, 12:34 AM	#5 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,068	Hope this is the one you are looking for! Newfoundland Hospital Ship No 38.jpg __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

08-09-2007, 01:16 AM	#6 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,068	Here is one of Talamba without the IWM mark. Talamba Hospital Ship ww2.jpg SS. Talamba Shown here as a Hospital Ship - bombed and sunk off Sicily while operating as hospital ship; loss of 5 lives. 8,018 tons Built: 1924 by R&W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co., Ltd. Hebburn. Tonnage: 8,018 g, 3,844 nt, 8,100 dwt. Engines: Twin screw, 2 x Triple expansion four cylinder,, 8,000 IHP, 16.5 knots by Builder. Passengers: 56 1st Class, 72 2nd Class, 2,777 Deck and Crew of 175. Launched 16th July 1924, completed 2nd October 1924, Yard No. 533. Talamba is a town near Multan in the Punjab, now Pakistan. __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

08-09-2007, 07:50 PM	#7 (permalink)
Tonym Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: East Sussex Posts: 57	Good on yer Spidge! Does that sound like 'Thanks' in Aussie? Best wishes, Tony __________________ Sgt. J.V. Murphy, Cameron Highlanders, DOW, Monte Cassino, March 1944

24-10-2007, 11:50 PM	#8 (permalink)
strongbow Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The Garden of England Posts: 9	Does anyone have a picture or any information on the hospital ship 'St. David'? One of my ancestors was Chief Engineer and was awarded the OBE from George VI. The story is that he helped free the ships fouled screws while the ship was at Dunkirk during the evacuation.

26-10-2007, 01:27 PM	#9 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 8,098	Had a look and presumably she's the 'St. David' built in '32 and sunk at Anzio in '44? Seems from here that she was sunk by an HS293 glide bomb, quite uncommon, though perhaps not at Anzio as it seems a few were thrown about. 96 lives lost and one of the attacking planes shot down by liberty ship 'Bret Harte'. There's a couple of 'peoples war' references to her too (one of which refers to a Capt. Thompson, Dunkirk GC winner who later went on to serve on the St. David). Can't seem to find reference to her presence at Dunkirk or a picture of her I'm afraid, or even one of her sister ship St Andrew. Cheers, Adam. __________________ It's only the Internet.

26-10-2007, 03:48 PM	#10 (permalink)
Tonym Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: East Sussex Posts: 57	Strongbow I have a picture in Hospital Livery but can't work out how to post it, not as straight forward as GWF. If you send me your email I will do it that way Tony __________________ Sgt. J.V. Murphy, Cameron Highlanders, DOW, Monte Cassino, March 1944

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