HMS Lothian

History
United Kingdom
Name	MV City of Edinburgh
Owner	Ellerman's City Line
Route	USA - Australia - New Zealand route until 1939
Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Yard number	1032
Launched	14 April 1938
Completed	August 1938
In service	1938-1939
Fate	Requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport in 1939.
Name	MV City of Edinburgh
Owner	Ministry of War Transport
Operator	Ellerman's City Line
In service	1939-43
Fate	Recommissioned into Royal Navy as headquarters ship
Notes	Used as troop transport in November 1942 on convoy KMF4 for Operation Torch (the invasion of North Africa)
Name	HMS Lothian
Commissioned	September 1943
Out of service	1943-46
Fate	Returned to owners
Notes	Renamed HMS Lothian in 1943 and converted into a Landing Ship Infantry (Headquarters) LSI (H) for the Royal Navy.
History
Name	MV City of Edinburgh
Owner	Ellerman's City Line
In service	1946-61
Fate	Sold to Hong Kong Salvage and Towage Company in 1961 and renamed Castle Mount for her last voyage to Hong Kong for scrapping in July 1961.
General characteristics
Tonnage	8,036 GRT
Beam	19 ft

HMS Lothian, was a former cargo ship launched in 1938, as MV City of Edinburgh, which was requisitioned during the Second World War as a troop transport and later converted by the Royal Navy into a headquarters ship in the Pacific. The ship is notable for a mutiny that occurred onboard whilst docked at Balboa, Panama in September 1944.

The ship was returned to her original owners, Ellerman's City Line, in 1946 and scrapped in 1961.^[1]