HMS Forfar (F30)

Montrose in Funchal, Madeira, in the early 1930s
History
United Kingdom
Name	1920: Montrose 1940: HMS Forfar
Owner	Canadian Pacific Railway
Operator	1922: Canadian Pacific 1939: Royal Navy
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
Identification	UK official number 145919 Code letters KLTJ (until 1933) Call sign GFTK (by 1930) Pennant number F30 (from 1939)
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	As built: 2,476 NHP by 1930: 2,524 NHP
Propulsion	2 × screw propellers As built: 4 × Steam turbines, double reduction gearing By 1930: 6 × Steam turbines, single reduction gearing
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h)
Capacity	As built: 542 cabin class, 1,268 3rd class 70,560 cubic feet (1,998 m3) Refrigerated cargo
Complement	193 men
Sensors and processing systems	Submarine signalling Wireless direction finding
Armament	As Armed Merchant Cruiser: 8 × 6-inch guns 2 × 3-inch guns
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.