RMS Mooltan
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RMS Mooltan was an ocean liner and Royal Mail Ship of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). She was ordered in 1918 and completed in 1923. She served in the Second World War first as the armed merchant cruiser HMS Mooltan (F75) and then as a troop ship. She was retired from P&O service in 1953 and scrapped in 1954.
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Namesake | Multan, Punjab |
Owner | P&O Steam Navigation Co[2] |
Operator | P&O SN Co (1923–39, 1941–54) Royal Navy (1939–41) |
Port of registry | Belfast[2] |
Route | Tilbury – Australia[3] |
Ordered | 29 November 1918[citation needed] |
Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast[2] |
Yard number | 587[4] |
Launched | 15 February 1923[citation needed] |
Completed | 22 September 1923[4] |
Maiden voyage | 5 October 1923[citation needed] |
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Fate | Scrapped 1954 |
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Type | Ocean liner |
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Length | 600.8 ft (183.1 m)[2] pp |
Beam | 73.4 ft (22.4 m)[2] |
Draught | 34 ft 10 in (10.6 m)[citation needed] |
Depth | 48.6 ft (14.8 m)[2] |
Decks | 5[citation needed] |
Installed power | after 1929: 2,878 NHP;[2] 15,300 shp (11,400 kW)[citation needed] |
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Speed | (after 1929) 17.5 kn (32.4 km/h)[citation needed] |
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Mooltan was unusual in combining both quadruple-expansion steam engines and turbo-electric transmission. When completed in 1923 she had only her quadruple-expansion engines, but in 1929 turbo generators and electric propulsion motors were added alongside them to increase her speed.