HMHS Lanfranc

Lanfranc under way
History
United Kingdom
Name	Lanfranc
Namesake	Lanfranc
Owner	Booth Steamship Co
Operator	Booth Steamship Co 1907–14 Royal Navy 1914–17
Port of registry	Liverpool
Route	Liverpool – Brazil
Builder	Caledon Shipbldg & Eng Co, Dundee
Cost	£122,000
Yard number	189
Launched	18 October 1906
Completed	February 1907
Identification	UK official number 124034 Code letters HKDM Call sign MDS
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk on 17 April 1917
General characteristics
Type	1907: Ocean liner 1914: Hospital ship
Tonnage	6,275 GRT, 3,655 NRT
Length	418.5 ft (127.6 m)
Beam	52.2 ft (15.9 m)
Installed power	850 NHP
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion engines 2 × screws
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Capacity	as hospital ship: 403 wounded
Crew	123, plus 52 RAMC personnel as hospital ship

HMHS Lanfranc was a Booth Line passenger steamship that was built in Scotland in 1907 and operated scheduled services between Liverpool and Brazil until 1914. In the First World War she was a hospital ship until a U-boat sank her in the English Channel in 1917.

This was the second Lanfranc in Booth's fleet. The first was an iron-hulled steamship that was built in 1884, sold in 1898 and renamed Olympia.^[1]