Queen of Bermuda
1933
(Albatros AL-129)
- Class: Passenger
- Displacement: 22,575 tons
- Dimensions: 580 x 77 x 27 ft.
- Machinery: Steam turboelectric engines, quadruple screw, 20,000 SHP = 19 knots
- Passengers: 731 (700 first class, 31 second class)
- Crew: 410
- Builder: Vickers-Armstrong Shipbuilders, Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness, England, 1933
- Service: Built for Furness-Bermuda Line, New York-Bermuda service. Maiden voyage Liverpool-New York, 14 Feb 1933. Taken up as armed merchant cruiser HMS Queen of Bermuda, 28 Oct 1939. Third (dummy) funnel removed 1940. Converted to transport with capacity for 4500 troops after 1943. Returned to owners for an extensive refit; third funnel restored, 22,501 GRT. Resumed Bermuda service, 1949. Rebuilt at Harland & Wolff with single funnel, 1961-62. Scrapped in Scotland, 1966-67.
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