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HMS Scotstoun
Career (United Kingdom) Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom
Name: HMS Scotstoun
Builder: Alexander Stephen and Sons, Linthouse, Glasgow
Launched: 21 April 1925, as SS Caledonia
Acquired: August 1939
In service: 1925
Out of service: August 1939
Fate: Sunk, 13 June 1940
General characteristics
Type: Armed merchant cruiser
Displacement: 17,046 long tons (17,320 t)
Length: 552 ft (168 m)
Beam: 70.2 ft (21.4 m)
Speed: 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph)
Complement: 352
Armament:

RMS Caledonia was a British Anchor Line passenger liner later converted into the armed merchant cruiser HMS Scotstoun during World War II. She was launched on 21 April 1925. In September 1939, the liner was requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser.[1] She was credited with capturing the 6386-ton German tanker Biscaya off Reykjavik on 19 October 1939 and, in company with sister ship HMS Transylvania, sinking the 5864-ton German freighter Poseidon two days later.[2] On 13 June 1940 Scotstoun was torpedoed and sunk by U-25 north of Ireland.[3]

Citations[]

  1. Lenton, H.T.; Colledge, J.J. (1964). British and Dominion Warships of World War II. New York: Doubleday and Company. p. 267. 
  2. "Armed Merchant Cruiser Northern Patrol". https://www.warcovers.dk/greenland/amc_scotstoun.htm. 
  3. Brown, David (1995). Warship Losses of World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 34. ISBN 1-55750-914-X. 
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