Hospital ships' movements 1915-19 - Hospital ships | NZHistory, New Zealand history online

Note: The four commemorative booklets compiled by Lord Liverpool listed the ships’ movements while under government charter. This list is based on his, but has been amended in places based on telegrams and masters’ reports in USSCo. and army archives. Many minor differences may have been produced by confusing northern and southern hemisphere dates – even today the incomplete telegrams are sometimes hard to follow and full of errors, and newspaper accounts could state the Marama leaving London in June 1919 on the 8th, 9th or even the 10th. All altered or additional port calls are marked by an asterisk.

HMNZHS No. 1 (Maheno)
First commission July 1915 to January 1916
1915
7–11 Jul	Wellington
16–21 Jul	Adelaide
2–5 Aug	Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
16–18 Aug	Suez
20 Aug	Alexandria
15–16 Aug	Mudros [Moudros]
26–9 Aug	Anzac
30 Aug– 2 Sep	Anzac
2–3 Sep	Mudros
7 Sep	Anzac
9–10 Sep	Mudros
11–15 Sep	Valetta, Malta
17–18 Sep	Anzac
23–7 Sep	Valetta, Malta
28–9 Sep	Mudros
30 Sep	Anzac and Mudros
5–8 Oct	Alexandria
17–30 Oct	Southampton
6–7 Nov	Valetta
9–10 Nov	Mudros
11 Nov	Kephalo (Imbros), then Anzac
13 Nov	Mudros
15–17 Nov	Alexandria
21–2 Nov	Valetta
24 Nov	Port Said
26 Nov	Suez
9–10 Dec	Colombo
22–3 Dec	Albany, Australia
1916
1 Jan	Auckland
3–7 Jan	Wellington
Second commission January to December 1916
20–6 Jan	Wellington
2–5 Feb*	Albany
15–16 Feb*	Colombo
27 Feb–6 Mar*	Suez
11 Mar*	Aden
18–20 Mar*	Colombo
31–?*	Albany
15 Apr–6 May	Port Chalmers (incl. repairs)
11-12 May	Albany
27–9 May*	Colombo
9–20 Jun	Suez
21–2 Jun	Port Said
23–4 Jun	Alexandria
4 Jul–16 Oct*	20 round trips between Southampton and Le Havre or Boulogne plus refit to add 115 extra cots plus ‘shake-downs’
16–19 Oct*	Dublin
20–7 Oct*	Southampton
1 Nov*	Gibraltar
7 Nov*	Port Said
8 Nov*	Suez
18–20 Nov*	Colombo
1–10 Dec*	Albany (delayed awaiting collier)
17 Dec	Auckland
18 Dec	Wellington
19 Dec	Port Chalmers
Third commission January–September 1917
16–18 Jan	Lyttelton
27–9 Jan	Albany
10–13 Feb	Bombay [Mumbai]
24 Feb*	Port Said
27–8 Feb	Malta
3 Mar*	Gibraltar
8 Mar*	Avonmouth
10–18 Mar*	Liverpool
27 Mar*	Malta
27 Mar*	Port Sail
29 Mar*	Suez
11–13 Apr	Colombo
25–6 Apr*	Albany
6 May	Auckland
8 May*	Wellington
9 May*	Lyttelton
10–30 May*	Port Chalmers
7–9 Jun	Albany
24–6 Jun	Durban
29–30 Jun	Cape Town
10–14 Jul	Freetown
22 Jul – 8 Aug	Southampton
21–2 Aug	Colon
23–4 Aug	Panama Canal
24 Aug	Balboa (plus or minus 1 day)
5–8 Sept	Tahiti
16 Sept	Auckland
18 Sept	Wellington
19 Sep	Lyttelton
20 Sep	Port Chalmers
Fourth Commission October 1917 to June 1918
1917
13–20 Oct	Port Chalmers
29 Oct*	Albany
11 Nov*	Durban
16–18 Nov*	Cape Town
2–30 Nov*	Freetown
9–24 Dec*	Avonmouth
24 Dec 1917	non-shore leave voyage Avonmouth to Auckland via Durban and Albany
1918
31 Jan*	Auckland
2 Feb*	Wellington
3 Feb*	Lyttelton
4 Feb–1 Mar*	Port Chalmers
9 Mar*	Albany
23–5 Mar*	Durban
28–30 Mar*	Cape Town
9–11 Apr	Freetown
20 Apr–3 May	Avonmouth
3 May–30 Jun	non-shore leave voyage Avonmouth to Auckland via Durban and Albany
30 Jun	Albany
Fifth commission July 1918 to April 1919
1918
1–7 Jul	Port Chalmers
15–17 Jul*	Albany
29 Jul*	Colombo
13 Aug	Port Said
14–19 Aug	Alexandria
24 Aug–2 Sep*	Marseilles
7 Sep	Port Said
19–23 Sep	Colombo
7 Oct	Albany
???	Port Chalmers
8–10 Nov*	Colombo
18 Nov*	Suez
22–3 Nov*	Port Said
23–6 Nov*	Alexandria
2 Dec*	Malta
6 Dec*	Southampton
20 Oct–15 Dec	Auckland (repairs)
27 Dec–4 Jan	Albany (quarantine)
1919
15–19 Jan	Colombo
2 Feb	Port Said
3 Feb	Alexandria
16 Feb	Southampton
17 Feb–8 Mar	Cardiff
8–11 Mar	Avonmouth
11–12 Apr	Auckland
26 Apr	Port Chalmers
HMNZHS No. 2 (Marama)
First commission December 1915 to October 1916
1915
1–5 Dec	Wellington
12 Dec*	Adelaide
14–16 Dec*	Albany
25–7 Dec	Colombo
1916
4–5 Jan	Aden
8–18 Jan	Suez
18–22 Jan	Alexandria
31 Jan–15 Feb	Southampton
18–19 Feb	Gibraltar
24 Feb	Valetta
27 Feb–9 Mar	Alexandria
17 Mar	Marseilles
18–20 Mar	Cette [Sète]
26 Mar*	Salonika
27 Mar	Stavros
28 Mar–7 Apr	Salonika
10–12 Apr	Valetta
20 Apr–5 May	Southampton
10–12 May	Valetta
16 May–9 Jun	Alexandria
19 Jun–2 Jul	Southampton
4 Jul	Boulogne
5 Jul	Southampton
6 Jul	Le Havre
7 Jul	Southampton
8 Jul	Boulogne
9–12 Jul	Southampton
13 Jul	Le Havre
14–18 Jul	Southampton
19–29 Jul	Southampton–Le Havre voyages
22–3 Jul	Dublin
25–8 Jul	Southampton
29 Jul	Le Havre
30 Jul–4 Aug	Southampton
6–25 Aug	5 round trips Southampton–Le Havre
25–31 Aug	Southampton
22–25 Sep	Durban
10 Oct	Fremantle
17–18 Oct	Melbourne
22 Oct–6 Nov	Port Chalmers
Second commission November 1916 to August 1917
1916
7–12 Nov	Wellington
2 Nov	Albany
4–8 Nov	Bombay [Mumbai]
17 Dec	Suez
20–1 Dec	Alexandria
24–5 Dec	Valetta
28 Dec	Gibraltar
31 Dec 1916–13 Jan 1917	Southampton
1917
21 Jan	Dakar (to land shipwreck survivors)
5–8 Feb	Durban
23–4 Feb	Albany
5 Mar	Auckland
7 Mar	Wellington
8 Mar	Lyttelton
9 Mar	Timaru
10–22 Mar	Port Chalmers
31 Mar	Albany
11–14 Apr	Colombo
18–19 Apr	Bombay
27 Apr	Aden
3–7 May	Suez
22–5 May	Durban
29–31 May	Cape Town
10–11 Jun	Freetown
21 Jun – 17 Jul	Avonmouth
29 Jul	Colon
29–31 Jul	Panama Canal
31 Jul	Balboa
22 Aug	Auckland
25 Aug	Port Chalmers
Third commission September 1917–May 1918
1917
22 Sep	Port Chalmers
3 Oct	Durban
20–4 Oct	Cape Town
10–20 Nov	Avonmouth
5 Dec	Colon
21 Dec	Pitcairn
28 Dec	Auckland
30 Dec–31 Jan 1918	Port Chalmers
1918
9 Feb	Albany
25–8 Feb*	Cape Town
19 Mar–7 Apr*	Avonmouth
21–22 Apr	Panama Canal
4 May	Pitcairn Island
14 May	Auckland
16 May–1 Jun	Port Chalmers
Fourth commission June 1918 to February 1919
11 Jun*	Albany
29 Jun–5 Jul	Cape Town
9 Jul*	Durban
25–7 Jul*	Suez Canal
1–8 Aug	Marseilles
14 Aug*	Port Said
27 Aug	Colombo
10 Sep	Albany
20 Sep	Auckland
25 Sep–19 Oct	Port Chalmers
29 Oct	Albany
9–10 Nov*	Colombo
21 Nov*	Suez
22–3 Nov*	Port Said
24–6 Nov*	Alexandria
2–3 Dec*	Gibraltar (disembarking Spanish commissioners)
6–7 Dec*	Southampton
7 Dec	Le Havre
9–19 Dec	Southampton
1919
4–5 Jan	Colon/Balboa
27 Jan	Auckland
29 Jan*	Wellington
30 Jan*	Lyttelton
31 Jan	Port Chalmers
Imperial charter February–July 1919
28 Feb*	Port Chalmers
9–10 Mar*	Albany
18 Mar–8 Apr*	Singapore
9 Apr*	Port Swettenham
10 Apr*	Penang
15 Apr*	Colombo
26 Apr*	Suez
27–8 Apr*	Port Said
8 May*	Plymouth
9 May–7 Jun	London
8–9 Jun*	Southampton
24-5*	Panama Canal
17 Jul	Auckland
19 Jul	Wellington
20 Jul	Lyttelton
21 Jul	Port Chalmers