Royal Newfoundland Regiment: Troop Transports

Ships that carried Regiment soldiers overseas

SS Florizel, n.d

The SS Florizel took the First Five Hundred (Companies A and B) of the First Newfoundland Regiment to Britain in October 1914.
Reproduced by permission of the Maritime History Archive(PF-008.059a), Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.

SS Neptune, 1915

The SS Neptune leaving St. John's on Feburary 5, 1915 carrying C Company, First Newfoundland Regiment. It joined a convoy south of St. John's, where C Company was transferred to the SS Dominion.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (B 3-215), St. John's, NL

SS Dominion, 1915

The SS Dominion, ice-bound outside St. John's, waiting for C Company troops. They were eventually brought out by the SS Neptune that had forced a passage.
Reproduced by permission of the Maritime History Archive (PF-345.031), Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.

SS Stephano, ca. 1911-1916

D Company, First Newfoundland Regiment departed St. John's for Halifax on March 20, 1915 in the SS Stephano. There the soldiers of D company transferred to the SS Orduna for their voyage to Britain.
Reproduced by permission of the Maritime History Archive (PF-001.1-Q23b), Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.

SS Orduna, n.d.

In late March, 1915, the soldiers of D Company, First Newfoundland Regiment left Halifax bound for Britain onboard the SS Orduna.
Image from the The 21st Battalion CEF web site.

SS Missanabie, ca. 1914-1918

On April, 22, 1915 the SS Stephano sailed with E Company, First Newfoundland Regiment from St. John's to Halifax. There the company transferred to the SS Missanabie which sailed for England on April 25, 1915.
Image from Wreck Site

SS Calgarian, ca. 1914-1918

F Company of the First Newfoundland Regiment boarded the SS Calgarian in St. John's on June 20th, 1915, bound for Liverpool, England.
Image from Naval-History.net

SS Megantic, ca. 1909-1920

In August 1915 the Newfoundland Regiment sailed for Gallipoli in the SS Megantic, carrying over 1,000 regiment troops.
Image from Wikipedia.org

SS Corsican, ca. 1907-1923

G Company, First Newfoundland Regiment left St. John's on October 27, 1915. They went by rail and boat to Quebec where they boarded the SS Corsican, which brought them to Europe.
Image from Titanic Inquiry Project

SS Corinthian, ca. 1900-1918

In December 1915 H Company, First Newfoundland Regiment travelled by train and boat to Saint John, New Brunswick where they boarded the SS Corinthian bound for Europe.
Image from Titanic Inquiry Project

SS Alaunia, ca. 1913-1918

The Newfoundland Regiment left Egypt for France aboard the SS Alaunia in January 1916.
Image from Merseyside Roll of Honor.