HMS Scotstoun | |
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Career (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: |
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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[]
- ↑ Lenton, H.T.; Colledge, J.J. (1964). British and Dominion Warships of World War II. New York: Doubleday and Company. p. 267.
- ↑ "Armed Merchant Cruiser Northern Patrol". https://www.warcovers.dk/greenland/amc_scotstoun.htm.
- ↑ 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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