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RMS Alcantara (1926)
British ocean liner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see SS Alcantara (1913).
RMS Alcantara was a Royal Mail Lines ocean liner that was built in Belfast in 1926. She served in the Second World War first as an armed merchant cruiser and then a troop ship. She returned to civilian service in 1948 and was scrapped in 1958.
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Namesake | Alcántara |
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Route | Southampton – South America |
Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
Yard number | 586 |
Launched | 23 September 1926 |
Completed | 18 February 1927 |
Commissioned | 1939 |
Decommissioned | 1943 |
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Beam | 78 ft 6 in (23.93 m) |
Draught | 44 ft 9 in (13.64 m) |
Depth | 40 ft 6 in (12.34 m) |
Decks | 7 |
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Boats & landing craft carried | Launched with 30 lifeboats, later reduced to 28 |
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Complement | 254 |
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Notes | Sister ship: RMS Asturias |
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