![]() HMS Hilary at Greenock in the 1940s
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Name | Hilary |
Namesake | Hilary of Poitiers |
Owner | Booth Steamship Co |
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Builder | Cammell, Laird & Co |
Cost | £219,000 |
Yard number | 975 |
Launched | 17 April 1931 |
Completed | August 1931 |
Refit | 1940, 1942, 1946, 1956 |
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Fate | Scrapped 1959 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ocean liner |
Tonnage | 7,403 GRT, 4,350 NRT |
Length | 424.2 ft (129.3 m) |
Beam | 56.2 ft (17.1 m) |
Draught | 24 ft 7+3⁄4 in (7.51 m) |
Depth | 34.2 ft (10.4 m) |
Decks | 3 |
Installed power | 1,033 NHP |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
Capacity |
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Crew | 313 (as landing ship, infantry) |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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SS Hilary was a British steam passenger liner that was built in 1931 and scrapped in 1959. She spent much of her career on a scheduled service between Liverpool in England and Manaus in Brazil.
In the Second World War the ship spent two periods in the Royal Navy as HMS Hilary. The first was in 1941–42 as an ocean boarding vessel. The second was in 1943–45 as a landing ship, infantry and headquarters ship.
Hilary belonged to the Booth Steamship Company throughout her career. She was the largest ship Booth ever owned, both in length and in tonnage. She also had the most powerful engines of any Booth ship.
This was the third Booth ship to be called Hilary. The first was a cargo ship that was built in 1889 as Red Sea, bought by Booth and renamed Hilary in 1892, sold in 1911 to Japanese buyers and renamed Misumi Maru.[1] The second was a passenger and cargo ship that was built in 1908, requisitioned in 1914 as the armed merchant cruiser HMS Hilary, and sunk in 1917 by a u-boat.[2]