On This Day - 21 November 1916

The Australian ship WARILDA was converted to a hospital ship at Garden Island, Sydney. In February 1918 the ship was torpedoed by a German submarine in the English Channel, but the torpedo failed to explode. On 3 August the ship was torpedoed again off Le Havre, and sank with a loss of 123 lives, many of whom were wounded soldiers.

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