HMS Montclare

HMS Montclare
History
United Kingdom
Name	Montclare
Owner	1922: Canadian Pacific Railway 1942: Admiralty
Operator	1922: Canadian Pacific 1939: Royal Navy
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
Reclassified	1944 destroyer depot ship 1946 submarine depot ship
Identification	UK official number 145964 code letters KMQF (until 1933) call sign GFTL (by 1930) pennant number F85 (from 1939)
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
Installed power	as built: 2,476 NHP 1929: 2,524 NHP
Propulsion	2 × screws 6 × steam turbines Built with double reduction gearing. 1929 single reduction gearing
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h)
Capacity	as built: 542 cabin class, 1,268 3rd class 71,380 cubic feet (2,021 m3) refrigerated cargo
Sensors and processing systems	submarine signalling wireless direction finding
Armament	As submarine depot ship: 4 × 4-inch AA guns 42 × 2-pounder AA guns 19 × 20 mm AA guns
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.