SS Ranchi
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SS Ranchi was Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company "R"-class steam ocean liner that was built in 1925 and scrapped in 1953. From 1939 to 1943 she was the Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser HMS Ranchi.
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Ranchi as originally built, with two funnels | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Ranchi |
Namesake | Ranchi |
Owner | Peninsular and Oriental SN Co |
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Port of registry | Newcastle |
Builder | Hawthorn Leslie & Co, Hebburn |
Yard number | 534 |
Launched | 24 January 1925 |
Reclassified |
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Identification |
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Fate | Scrapped at Newport, Wales, 1953 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | P&O "R" Class |
Type | Ocean liner |
Tonnage | |
Length | 548.5 ft (167.2 m) |
Beam | 71.3 ft (21.7 m) |
Depth | 43.2 ft (13.2 m) |
Decks | 3 |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 17.5 kn (32.4 km/h) |
Sensors and processing systems | wireless direction finding |
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From 1943 to 1947 she was a troop ship for the Ministry of War Transport and post-war Ministry of Transport.