Category:Corfu (ship, 1931)
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Source: Miramar Ship Index
Ship[edit]
- Type: Passenger ship
- Design by:
- Order date: 25.06.1930
- Built by: Alexander Stephen & Sons Glasgow
- Yard No: 534
- Keel laid: 09.09.1930
- Launch date: 20.05.1931
- Date of completion: 26.09.1931
- Length over all: 168.4 m
- LPP: m
- Beam: 21.8 m
- Draught: m
- GRT: 14,293
- DWT: 8909
- NET: 7812
- Main engine: 6x Parsons steam turbine 14,000 shp, single reduction
- Twin screw
- Speed: 18 kn
History[edit]
- 1931 Named: CORFU for the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company London Flag: United Kingdom
- 14.09.1939 Requisitioned by the Admiralty for service in the Royal Navy
- 15.09.1939 Start conversion at Harland and Wolff Ltd. After funnel removed and converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser
- 10.07.1940 Struck by the aircraft carrier HMS HERMES when escorting a convoy leaving Freetown, resulting in a 30 foot long hole in her starboard bow. Towed stern-first back into Freetown for emergency repairs.
- 17.01.1941 Left Freetown for Calcutta for permanent repairs.
- 08.09.1941 Repairs completed. Convoy and escort duty in the Indian Ocean.
- 1944 Converted into a troop ship
- 1947 Returned to P&O
- 24.03.1961 Sold to Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Japan for demolition Renamed CORFU MARU for her delivery voyage to Japanese breakers.
- 17.10.1961 Scrapped by Miyachi Salvage Co Ltd, at Osaka, Japan.
Media in category "Corfu (ship, 1931)"
The following 8 files are in this category, out of 8 total.
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RMS Corfu SLV Green.jpg 707 × 495; 45 KB
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RMS-SS Corfu.jpg 450 × 295; 59 KB
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Corfu P&O.jpg 13,306 × 9,059; 12.44 MB
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Departure of RMS CORFU (8117904997).jpg 1,450 × 1,177; 244 KB
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Departure of RMS CORFU (8117915052).jpg 1,433 × 1,172; 217 KB
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HMS Corfu 1943 IWM A 16365.jpg 776 × 579; 42 KB
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P & O Corfu 1956.jpg 1,604 × 1,016; 350 KB
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RMS CORFU under tow in Sydney Cove (9348646698).jpg 2,650 × 2,126; 168 KB
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Categories:
- Ocean liners by name
- Passenger ships of the United Kingdom
- Ships built in 1931
- Ships built at Alexander Stephen & Sons Glasgow
- Ships of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
- Ships registered in London
- Ships scrapped in 1961
- Ships scrapped in Japan
- Steamships of the United Kingdom
- World War II armed merchant cruisers of the United Kingdom
- World War II troop ships of the United Kingdom