Ship Details
Rig
RMS
Built
1908
Built In
Tonnage
12015
Built By
Demise
scrapped in Japan in 1933
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HMHS Asturias was a Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ocean liner that was built in Belfast in 1908 and scrapped in Japan in 1933. She was a Royal Mail Ship until 1914, when on the eve of the First World War the Admiralty requisitioned her as a hospital ship.
In 1917 a German U-boat torpedoed Asturias but her crew managed to beach her. She was raised and towed into port and spent the next two years as a ammunition hulk. In 1922–23 RMSP had her repaired and re-fitted as the cruise ship Arcadian. She was laid up in 1930 and sold for scrap in 1933.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Asturias (accessed 22/9/2017)
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