SS Anselm (1935)

Anselm under way
History
United Kingdom
Name	Anselm
Namesake	Anselm of Canterbury
Owner	Booth Steamship Co
Operator	Booth Steamship Co
Port of registry	Liverpool[3]
Route	Liverpool – Brazil
Builder	Wm Denny & Bros, Dumbarton
Cost	£158,876[1]
Yard number	1276[2]
Launched	15 October 1935[1][2]
Completed	17 December 1935[1]
Identification	UK official number 164275[3] call sign GYPF[3]
Fate	Sunk by torpedo, 5 July 1941[4]
General characteristics
Type	cargo & passenger liner (1935–40); troop ship (1940–42)
Tonnage	5,954 GRT, 3,601 NRT[3]
Length	412.3 ft (125.7 m)[3]
Beam	55.7 ft (17.0 m)[3]
Draught	25 ft 6+3⁄4 in (7.79 m)[3]
Depth	25.8 ft (7.9 m)[3]
Installed power	696 NHP[3]
Propulsion	1[1][2] or 3[3] steam turbines; single screw
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h)[1][2]
Boats & landing craft carried	at least 6 lifeboats
Capacity	Civilian service: 40 1st & 106 3rd class passengers;[1] Wartime service: 500 troops[2]
Crew	80[1]
Sensors and processing systems	wireless direction finding;[3] echo sounding device[3]
Armament	DEMS

SS Anselm was a British turbine steamship of the Booth Steamship Company. She was built as a cargo and passenger liner in 1935 and requisitioned and converted into a troop ship in 1940. A German submarine sank her in 1941, killing 254 of those aboard.