SS Cameronia

Mela Brown Constable’s brother, Wilfred, was on board The Cameronia when it sunk in 1917.

The Cameronia began life as a passenger steamship built in Glasgow in 1911.  She was torpedoed on 15th April 1917 by the German U-boat U-33 while en route from Marseilles in France to Alexandria in Egypt.  She was serving as a troopship at the time and contained approximately 2,650 soldiers on board.  The ship sank in 40 minutes, 150 miles east of Malta; taking 210 lives.  The survivors escaped in lifeboats or were picked up by the escorting destroyers, HMS Nemesis and HMS Rifleman.