_(14736036766).jpg) Asturias in RMSP livery as an ocean liner
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Asturias |
| Owner |  Royal Mail Steam Packet Co |
| Operator | Royal Mail Steam Packet Co |
| Port of registry |  Belfast |
| Route | Southampton – Buenos Aires |
| Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
| Yard number | 388 |
| Launched | 26 September 1907 |
| Completed | 8 January 1908 |
| Maiden voyage | 1908 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Requisitioned by the British Admiralty |
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMHS Asturias |
| Operator | Royal Navy |
| Fate | Returned to owners |
| Notes | Torpedoed and beached 20–21 March 1917 |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Arcadian |
| Owner | Royal Mail Steam Packet Co |
| Operator | Royal Mail Steam Packet Co |
| In service | 1923 |
| Out of service | 1930 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1933 |
| Notes | Converted to cruise ship, 1922–23 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | RMSP "A" series |
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| Tonnage | |
| Length | 520.3 ft (158.6 m) p/p |
| Beam | 62.3 ft (19.0 m) |
| Depth | 31.8 ft (9.7 m) |
| Decks | 2 |
| Installed power | 924 NHP |
| Propulsion |
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| Armament | 2 × stern-mounted QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns (as DAMS, 1913–14) |
| Notes |
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RMS Asturias was a Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ocean liner that was built in Ireland in 1908 and scrapped in Japan in 1933. She was a Royal Mail Ship until 1914, when on the eve of the First World War the British Admiralty requisitioned her as a hospital ship.
In 1917 a German U-boat torpedoed Asturias but her crew managed to beach her. She was raised and towed into port and spent the next two years as an ammunition hulk. In 1922–23 RMSP had her repaired and re-fitted as the cruise ship Arcadian. She was laid up in 1930 and sold for scrap in 1933.