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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	HMHS Newfoundland
Epithet	ocean liner, Royal Mail ship and hospital ship
Dates	1925-1943
History	Built in Barrow in Furness for Furness, Withy & Co of liberspool, Newfoundland worked the transatlantic mail route between Liverpoos and Canada, with her sister ship, RMS Nova Scotia. During the Second World War she carried wounded troups between the UK and Canada. In 1943 she became a hospital ship off the coast of Salerno, Italy, but was damaged by a Luftwaffe bomb on 13 September 1943 and scuttled the following day.
Authorised Form of Name	HMHS Newfoundland; 1925-1943; ocean liner, Royal Mail ship and hospital ship

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