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HMHS Asturias
HMHS ''Asturias'' was a hospital ship drafted into the British Royal Navy. On 20 March 1917 on her route from Avonmouth to Southampton she was torpedoed by German U-boat UC-66. Beached by the crew near Bolt Head, ''Asturias'' was raised and towed to Plymouth where she sat for two years as a ammunition hulk.
==History==
''Asturias'' worked for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company operating the Southampton – Buenos Aires run. She was drafted into the Navy as a hospital ship and served in a number of places including Gallipoli, Egypt and Salonika, returning wounded to the UK. Although she was retrofitted for 896 patients on one occasion she shipped 2,400 sick and wounded back to the UK.
At 5:05 on 1 February 1915 a German U-boat launched a torpedo that successfully struck ''Asturias'' but failed to detonate. One month later the Germans released a press release that claimed the ''Asturias'' was misidentified and that once the mistake was realized by the U-boat crew they broke off the attack.
J. R. R. Tolkien was shipped back to the UK on the ''Asturias'' and remembers there being salt water baths on board. On 27 October 1916 as his battalion attacked Regina Trench, during the Battle of the Somme, Tolkien came down with trench fever, a disease carried by lice, which were common in the dugouts. Tolkien was invalided to England on 8 November 1916.〔
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