Category:Laurentic (ship, 1927)
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Ship
- Type: Ocean liner
- Design by:
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- Built by: Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast
- Yard No: 470
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- Date of completion: 1927
- Length over all: 176,2 m
- LPP: m
- Beam: 23 m
- Draught: 12,4 m
- GRT: 18724
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- Main engines: Triple expansion engines & L.P. turbine, 3 screws
- Speed: 17 kn
History
- 1927 Named: Laurentic for the White Star Line, Oceanic Steam Nav. Co., Ismay, Liverpool Flag: United Kingdom
- 26.08.1939 Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an armed merchant cruiser.
- 15.10.1939 Conversion was completed
- 03.11.1940 22.50 hours the first torpedo of the U-99, Fregattenkapitän Otto Kretschmer, struck HMS Laurentic (F 51) from a range of 1,500 metres.
Source: Shipping & Shipbuilding Source: The Yard
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Media in category "Laurentic (ship, 1927)"
The following 12 files are in this category, out of 12 total.
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Laurentic.jpg 392 × 248; 28 KB
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Laurentic2.jpg 392 × 249; 31 KB
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Rum Issue, John Worsley.jpg 316 × 400; 164 KB
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SS Laurentic 1929.jpg 2,042 × 1,260; 1.05 MB
Categories:
- Passenger ships of the United Kingdom
- Ships built in 1927
- Ships built at Harland and Wolff shipyard
- Ships of Cunard-White Star Line
- Ships registered in Liverpool
- Ships sunk in 1940
- Ships sunk by torpedo
- Ships sunk by U-boats
- Ships of the White Star Line
- World War II armed merchant cruisers of the United Kingdom