HMAS Grantala

Grantala before the First World War
History
Name	1903: Grantala 1917: Figuig
Namesake	1917: Figuig
Owner	1903: Adelaide Steamship Co 1915: Red Funnel Shipping Co 1921: Cie Gle Transatlantique
Operator	1914: Royal Australian Navy 1915: Cie Gle Transatlantique
Port of registry	1903: Port Adelaide 1915: London 1921: Bordeaux
Builder	Armstrong, Whitworth & Co, Low Walker
Yard number	737
Launched	28 May 1903
Completed	December 1903
Acquired	For RAN: 7 August 1914
Decommissioned	From RAN: 22 December 1914
Identification	1903: UK official number 118370 1903: code letters VMHP 1914: call sign VHJ 1920: code letters OHED
Honours and awards	Rabaul 1914
Fate	Scrapped, 1934
General characteristics
Type	Passenger ship
Tonnage	3,655 GRT, 1,787 NRT
Length	350.0 ft (106.7 m)
Beam	45.2 ft (13.8 m)
Depth	27.2 ft (8.3 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	690 NHP
Propulsion	1 × screw 1 × triple expansion engine
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h)
Capacity	Passengers: 110 first class 180 second class
Notes	sister ship: Yongala

HMAS Grantala was a passenger steamship that was built in England in 1903 as a coastal interstate liner for the Adelaide Steamship Company. In 1914 the Commonwealth government requisitioned her as a Royal Australian Navy hospital ship.

Compagnie Générale Transatlantique's British subsidiary, the Red Funnel Shipping Co, bought Grantala in 1915, and renamed her Figuig in 1917. She was transferred to the French parent company in 1920. She was scrapped in Italy in 1934.

Grantala was the sister ship of Yongala, which was lost with all hands off the Queensland coast in 1911, and is now a notable wreck diving site.