HMS Montclare
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Montclare |
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Port of registry | 1922: Liverpool |
Builder | John Brown & co, Clydebank |
Launched | 18 December 1921 |
Completed | August 1922 |
Commissioned | into Royal Navy, August 1939 |
Decommissioned | from Royal Navy, October 1954 |
Maiden voyage | 18 August 1922 |
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Fate | Scrapped in Inverkeithing in 1958 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ocean liner |
Tonnage | 16,314 GRT, 9,724 NRT |
Displacement | 21,550 tons when commissioned |
Length | 549.5 ft (167.5 m) |
Beam | 70.2 ft (21.4 m) |
Draught | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
Depth | 40.2 ft (12.3 m) |
Decks | 2 |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
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Notes | sister ships: Montrose, Montcalm |
HMS Montclare (F85) was a British ocean liner that was commissioned into the Royal Navy as an armed merchant cruiser in 1939, converted into a destroyer depot ship in 1944 and a submarine depot ship in 1946. She was decommissioned in 1954 and scrapped in 1958.
Montclare was launched in Scotland in 1921 as a transatlantic liner for the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. She was one of three sister ships. The others were Montrose, launched in 1920 and Montcalm, launched in 1921.