Wiltshire
1912
(Rainier Grouls RG-40)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 12,160 tons
- Dimensions: 526 x 61 x 33 ft.
- Machinery: Steam quadruple-expansion, twin screw = 14 knots
- Passengers: 517 (117 first class, 130 second class, 270 third class)
- Crew: 103
- Builder: John Brown & Co., Clydebank, 1912
- Service: Built for Federal Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. service from Britain to Australia and New Zealand. Requisitioned as an Australian Expeditionary Force transport from 7 Sep 1914 to 27 Dec 1917. Then until Sep 1919 she was managed under the Liner Requisition Scheme, including service returning troops from Egypt.
While on transit from Liverpool to Auckland, whe was wrecked in Rosalie Bay, Great Barrier Island during a storm 31 May 1922.
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