Port of registry: United Kingdom Glasgow
Builder: Fairfield SB & Eng Co, Govan
Launched: 28 January 1922
Completed: 1923
Identification:
UK official number 146330
code letters KNRT (until 1933)
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call sign GFDM (from 1934)
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Fate: Sunk by U-30, 3 September 1939
Notes: First UK ship sunk by Germany in World War II
General characteristics
Tonnage:
13,465 GRT
tonnage under deck 10,200
8,118 NRT
Length: 526.3 ft (160.4 m) p/p
Beam: 66.4 ft (20.2 m)
Depth: 38.1 ft (11.6 m)
Decks: 3
Propulsion: 6 × steam turbines; twin screws
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h)
Sensors and
processing systems:
wireless direction finding (by 1930)
echo sounding device (by 1934)
gyrocompass (by 1934)
Notes: sister ship: Letitia