&sq=&lang=&file=File:Hmhs_Maine_FL15040.jpg) RFA Maine c. 1943
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| History | |
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| Name |
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| Namesake | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Owner |
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| Operator |
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| Port of registry |
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| Builder | Ansaldo, Muggiano, Italy |
| Launched | 28 December 1924 |
| Acquired | by capture, 1941 |
| Commissioned | 1947, as RFA Empire Clyde |
| Decommissioned | 1954 |
| Identification |
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| Honours and awards | Korea (1950) |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1954 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type |
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| Tonnage | |
| Length | 427 ft 1 in (130.18 m) |
| Beam | 52 ft 5 in (15.98 m) |
| Depth | 36 ft 0 in (10.97 m) |
| Installed power | 6 steam turbines |
| Propulsion | 2 screw propellers |
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RFA Maine was a 7,432 GRT hospital ship which was built in 1924 as the ocean liner Leonardo da Vinci by SA Ansaldo, La Spezia, Italy for the Società di Navigazione Transatlantica Italiana. In 1941, she was captured by the British at Kismayu, Italian Somaliland. Declared a prize of war, she was passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Clyde, serving as a hospital ship for the British Army during the Second World War. In 1948, ownership was passed to the Admiralty and she entered service with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary as RFA Maine. She served during the Korean War and was scrapped in 1954.