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*[http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Ships/HMHSGrantuallyCastle.html H.M.H.S. Grantually [sic<nowiki>]</nowiki> Castle] Prior to becoming a Hospital Ship during WW1, the Grantully Castle was used as a troopship, including a trip to India at the end of 1914, refer above.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151226102549/http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum%20Ships/Old%20Ships%20H/slides/Hecuba-04.jpg Image: HMT Hecuba] photoship.co.uk, now archived. Originally the "Brandenburg", built in 1901 for Norddeutscher Lloyd. The ship was awarded to Great Britain as war reparation in 1919 and had brief service as a troopship 1922-1924<ref> Ebay, seller three4five</ref>. There was a voyage from Southampton to Bombay, arriving 1 December 1924.<ref> [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/46/3/214.full.pdf "A Few Stations In India"] by Mrs. H. V. Bagshawe. ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps ''1926;46:3 214-223. </ref>
*[http://www.the-weatherings.co.uk/pccship0457.htm HMT Neuralia - Troop Ship] the-weatherings.co.uk. Neuralia, built 1912, operated as a permanent troopship from 1925.<ref> A History of the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited , pages 17 and 62. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160508162545/http://www.rakaia.co.uk/downloads/british-india-history.pdf Pdf] rakaia.co.uk, archived.</ref> The book ''Pick up your Parrots and Monkeys'' by William Pennington, see [[History reading list]], contains a chapter on the voyage to India on the Neuralia in the 1930s, see [[Trooping season#Historical books online|Historical books online]] below.
*[http://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/SHIPS/The-Royal-Navy/SUPPLY-SHIPS-AND-TRANSPORTS/25278036_5mNnFn/2290341600_sXphPfH#!i=2290341600&k=sXphPfH Photograph: HMT Nevasa - Troopship] Nevasa, built 1913, operated as a troop ship from 1925<ref>A History of the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited, page 62.</ref>
*[http://www.ssmaritime.com/British-India-Dilwara-Class.htm MS Dilwara and her three sisters, MS Dunera, Ettrick and Devonshire] ssmaritime.com. MS Dilwara and Dunera were completed in 1936 and 1937, and the second pair MS Ettrick and Devonshire in 1938
*[http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=74987996&mode=transcription "Hot weather precautions"] ''Volume II [2], Part I - Annual report on the health of the army in India for the year 1939'', page 107 National Library of Scotland “ Medical History of British India”
*[https://archive.org/details/valiantvoyagings0000saun/page/n9 ''Valiant voyaging : a short history of the British India Steam Navigation Company in the Second World War, 1939-1945''] by Hilary St. George Saunders 1948. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/pickupyourparrot0000penn/page/60/mode/2up "HMT ''Neuralia'' Liverpool to Bombay December 1925 to January 1936"] Chapter four, page 60 ''Pick up your parrots and monkeys : a boy soldier in India'' by William Pennington 2004, first published 2003. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
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