History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Glengyle |
Builder | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee |
Launched | 18 July 1939 |
Commissioned | 10 September 1940 |
Out of service | Returned to Glen Line 17 July 1946 |
Renamed | Deucalion in October 1970 |
Fate | Scrapped by June 1971 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 9,919 GRT |
Length | 507 ft 6 in (154.69 m) |
Beam | 66 ft 4 in (20.22 m) |
Draught | 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) |
Installed power | 12,000 bhp |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Capacity | 34 officers 663 other ranks |
Complement | 523 |
Armament |
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HMS Glengyle was a 9,919 GRT cargo ship that served in the Second World War as an infantry landing ship (large) of the Royal Navy. She carried Commonwealth and other Allied troops in amphibious operations. Glengyle was able to make good speed on long ocean voyages to operational areas and then with its landing craft, transport assault infantry, vehicles and stores to defended shores.