page_title: HMT Royal Edward
hierarchical_section_title: HMT Royal Edward
caption_attribution_description: English: His Majesty's Troopship Royal Edward. Torpedoed and sunk by UB-14 on 13th August 1915, with the loss of 935 lives
context_page_description: RMS Royal Edward was a passenger ship belonging to the Canadian Northern Steamship Company that was sunk during the First World War with a large loss of life while transporting Commonwealth troops. She was launched in 1907 as RMS Cairo for a British mail service to Egypt.
context_section_description: RMS (later HMT) Royal Edward was a passenger ship belonging to the Canadian Northern Steamship Company that was sunk during the First World War with a large loss of life while transporting Commonwealth troops. She was launched in 1907 as RMS Cairo for a British mail service to Egypt.
caption: Royal Edward, c. 1910–14
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