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227948 Harry Hunn HMHS Aba Please can anyone help? My dear grandad, Harry Hunn, was on a hospital ship called the `Aba'. He boarded the ship in 1940 and travelled to many places around the world. He gave me a wonderful book he wrote about his time on the Aba. I also have many photos of his travels while he was on the ship. My question is: does anyone know who else was aboard or what happened to the ship? Before war service it was used as a banana boat near Africa. I am unable to track its whereabouts now. Update Try this website, www.barrbram.demon.co.uk. There is a section called `What the eye sees'. If you make a request there about the history of the ship you are looking for, this guy may be able to help you and may even come up with a picture. - Stan Update Fancy, of all things, seeing your posting on this site. I thought I must be the last person in the world to know about this ship. I was in the Naval hospital at Bighi in Malta in 1944. The war was drawing to a close and I was a `walking' patient being sent back to the UK. I have to say in all honesty that it was not a very nice ship. It was a very old Army hospital ship. When the weather was fine, I used to love to be outside during the day. (It took us quite a time to reach Portsmouth.) We were somewhere near Italy and a man came up to me, he said `good morning' and we had a chat, then suddenly he stood up, said cheerio, and just went straight off the back of the ship. I did not see him surface, they did stop the ship to have a look for him, but found nobody. Another time we pulled into the harbour at Naples. There were some wounded Italian soldiers to be repatriated. The harbour front was empty and fog swirled all round, it was quite eerie. These soldiers went down the gangway into the harbour and the last I saw of them were vague shapes disappearing through the fog. I know they had been our enemy, but they were local lads going home and there was not a soul there to meet them. I have one or two other tales but mainly that is my memory for what it's worth, of Hospital Ship Aba. - Ralph Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please type the first part our your email in the first box (eg. john.smith) the @ sign is added automaticallly, please type the second part in the second box (eg. gmail.com). Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.** Please type in the code shown here:    If you are unable to read the code please click here. If you have received an error message for incorrect code, please click to refresh the code before resending. This should overcome the error message.