SS Antenor (1924)

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History
Name	Antenor (1924–39; 1941–53) HMS Antenor (1939–41)
Namesake	Antenor
Owner	China Mutual SN Co
Operator	Alfred Holt & Co (1924–39; 1941–53) Royal Navy (1939–41)
Port of registry	Liverpool (1924–39; 1941–53)
Route	Liverpool – Far East
Builder	Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co
Yard number	945
Launched	30 September 1924
Completed	March 1925
Acquired	13 September 1939
Commissioned	January 1940
Reclassified	armed merchant cruiser 1939–41, troop ship 1941–46
Identification	UK official number 147292 code letters KSBV (until 1933) call sign GLFC (1934 onward)
Fate	Scrapped 1953
General characteristics
Type	refrigerated cargo and passenger liner
Tonnage	11,174 GRT tonnage under deck 8,590 6,809 NRT
Length	497.7 ft (151.7 m)
Beam	62.2 ft (19.0 m)
Depth	35 ft (11 m)
Propulsion	4 × steam turbines; twin screws
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h)
Capacity	berths for first class passengers only
Sensors and processing systems	wireless direction finding (by 1934)
Armament	as armed merchant cruiser: 6 × BL 6-inch Mk XII guns 2 × QF 3-inch 20 cwt AA guns
Notes	sister ships: Sarpedon, Patroclus and Hector

SS Antenor was a UK steam turbine passenger and refrigerated cargo liner launched in 1924. She was the third of five ships to bear the name.^[1]

In the Second World War Antenor served first as an armed merchant cruiser and then as a troop ship.