History | |
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Owner | Canadian Pacific Railway |
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Port of registry | 1922: Liverpool |
Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Glasgow |
Yard number | 529 |
Launched | 14 December 1920 |
Sponsored by | Lady Raeburn |
Completed | March 1922 |
Commissioned | Into Royal Navy, 4 September 1939 |
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Fate | Sunk 2 December 1940 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ocean liner |
Tonnage | 16,402 GRT, 9,824 NRT |
Length | 548.7 ft (167.2 m) |
Beam | 70.2 ft (21.4 m) |
Draught | 27 feet 6 inches (8.38 m) |
Depth | 40.3 ft (12.3 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
Capacity |
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Complement | 193 men |
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Armament |
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Notes | Sister ships: Montcalm, Montclare |
HMS Forfar (F30) was a British ocean liner that was commissioned into the Royal Navy as an armed merchant cruiser in 1939 and sunk by enemy action in 1940. She was launched in Scotland in 1920 as a transatlantic liner for the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company as Montrose. She was one of three sister ships. The others were Montcalm, also launched in 1920, and Montclare, launched in 1921.