RML poster of Asturias with her funnels raised in height after she was rebuilt as a turbine steamship.
Painting by Kenneth Shoesmith. | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name |
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Namesake | Principality of Asturias |
Owner |
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Operator | Royal Navy (1939–43) |
Port of registry | Belfast |
Route | Southampton – South America |
Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
Yard number | 507 |
Launched | 7 July 1925 |
Sponsored by | Rosalind Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn |
Completed | 6 February 1926 |
Identification |
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Fate | Sold for scrap, 14 September 1957 |
General characteristics | |
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Tonnage | |
Length | 630 ft 6 in (192.18 m) |
Beam | 78 ft 6 in (23.93 m) |
Draught | 44 ft 9 in (13.64 m) |
Depth | 40 ft 6 in (12.34 m) |
Decks | 7 |
Installed power | As built: 3,366 NHP; 10,000 ihp, 7,500 bhp |
Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Boats & landing craft carried | Launched with 30 lifeboats, later reduced to 28 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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Notes | Sister ship: RMS Alcantara |
RMS Asturias was a Royal Mail Lines ocean liner that was built in Belfast in 1925. She served in the Second World War as an armed merchant cruiser until she was crippled by a torpedo in 1943. She was out of action until 1948 when she returned to civilian service as an emigrant ship. She became a troop ship in 1954 and was scrapped in 1957.