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1st August 1914 Hospital ship
HMHS Essequibo
RMS Essequibo - full details still to source.
Served as hospital ship during ww1 (for Canadian government?)

Hospital Ship or Ambulance Transport Service during WW1.
Medical Staff strength.
Officers:11
Nurses:16
Other:76
Accommodation capacity.
Officers:42
Cots:249
Berths:298
Period of Service as Hospital Ship or Ambulance Transport.
Date From:2nd September 1915
Date To:12th September 1919
Ships Crew details:

Apparently Essequibo was stopped by U-64 in 1917, searched, confirmed a hospital ship, and sent on her way. She was commissioned in 1915 as a Mail Ship, pressed into service as a hospital ship for the duration, then returned to her original role. Eventually sold to the Russians in 1935!
Essequibo was a 8489 grt steamer built in 1914/15 for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. she was transferred in 1922 to Pacific Steam Nav. Co. (which the Royal Mail SP Co. owned) and sold to the USSR in 1935 and renamed Neva.
The "Essequibo" was stopped and searched by U 54 (Kptlt. Freiherr von Bothmer) off Ireland on 15.03.1917, not by U 64.
The Essequibo was a British hospital ship loaned to the Canadian Government in 1917 as one of the five Canadian hospital ships for ww1 for the transatlantic run. She was indeed stopped, inspected and allowed to proceed by a German uboat as previously reported. An English sailor's or merchant marine company history does talk briefly about this.

15th April 1916 SM U-64
Type U 63 Shipyard Germaniawerft, Kiel (Werk 248) Ordered 17 May 1915 Laid down 19 May 1915 Launched 29 Feb 1916 Commissioned 15 Apr 1916
Commanders.
15 Apr 1916 - 17 Jun 1918 Robert Moraht.
Career 10 patrols 31 May 1916 - 19 Nov 1916 IV Flotilla 19 Nov 1916 - 17 Jun 1918 Pola/Mittelmeer I Flotilla
Successes 45 ships sunk with a total of 129,569 tons.
3 ships damaged with a total of 9,420 tons.
1 ship taken as prize with a total of 186 tons.
1 warship sunk with a total of 18,300 tons.

25 Sep 1916 U 64 Robert Moraht Bella 11 br
26 Sep 1916 U 64 Robert Moraht Loch Ryan (prize) 186 br
10 Nov 1916 U 64 Robert Moraht Freja 2,168 da
10 Nov 1916 U 64 Robert Moraht Tripel 4,633 nw
15 Nov 1916 U 64 Robert Moraht F. Matarazzo 2,823 br
17 Feb 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Hawk 243 br
17 Feb 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Okement 4,349 br
18 Feb 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Asturian (damaged) 3,193 br
19 Feb 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Corso 3,242 br
12 Mar 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Nina M. 117 it
16 Mar 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Catania 3,188 it
17 Mar 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Tripoli 658 it
19 Mar 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Danton 18,300 fr
23 Mar 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Eptalofos 4,413 br
25 Mar 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Berbera 4,352 br
25 Mar 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Immacolata 137 it
5 Jun 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Kallundborg 1,590 br
6 Jun 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Oriana 1,015 ar
7 Jun 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Mama Filomena 148 it
9 Jun 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Fert 5,567 it
9 Jun 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Gratangen 2,484 nw
12 Jun 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Moreni 4,045 am
19 Jun 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht La Giuseppina 28 it
19 Jun 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Nuovo Mondo Carmelo 25 it
12 Sep 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Gisla 2,118 nw
12 Sep 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Urd 3,049 br
12 Sep 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Wilmore 5,395 am
14 Sep 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Amiral De Kersaint 5,570 fr
14 Sep 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Ausonia 1,438 it
14 Sep 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Chulmleigh 4,911 br
19 Oct 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht War Clover 5,174 br
25 Oct 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Erviken 2,134 nw
25 Oct 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Ness 3,050 br
25 Oct 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Sheaf Blade 2,378 br
26 Oct 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Le Tarn 1,658 fr
28 Oct 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Ferrona 4,591 br
9 Dec 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Adour 1,940 nw
10 Dec 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Crathorne 2,619 nw
10 Dec 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Owasco 4,630 am
11 Dec 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht D. A. Gordon 2,301 br
11 Dec 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Minorca 1,145 br
14 Dec 1917 U 64 Robert Moraht Coila 4,135 br
30 Jan 1918 U 64 Robert Moraht Minnetonka 13,528 br
4 Feb 1918 U 64 Robert Moraht Participation 2,438 it
5 Feb 1918 U 64 Robert Moraht Caprera 1,875 it
6 Feb 1918 U 64 Robert Moraht Duca Di Genova 7,893 it
7 Feb 1918 U 64 Robert Moraht Montenegro (damaged) 1,306 fr
8 Feb 1918 U 64 Robert Moraht Agnese Madre 235 it
8 Feb 1918 U 64 Robert Moraht Emma Felice 128 it
17 Jun 1918 U 64 Robert Moraht Kandy (damaged) 4,921 br

Fate 17 Jun 1918 - Damaged by Depth Charges from HMS Lychnis, she surfaced and received a hail of fire until sinking at 38.07N 10.27E. 38 dead and 5 survivors.
There was another U 64 in World War Two.
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 20 Sep 1939 and commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on 16 Dec 1939.

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