Viceroy of India
1929
(Albatros AL-234)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 19,648 tons
- Dimensions: 612 x 76 x 28 ft.
- Machinery: Turboelectric engines, twin screw, 17,000 shp = 19 knots
- Passengers: 673 (415 first class, 258 second class)
- Crew: 417
- Builder: Alexander Stephen & Sons, Limited, Glasgow, Scotland, 1929
- Service: Built for P&O Lines. Was to have been named Taj Mahal. London-Bombay service beginning 7 Mar 1929. Established a London-Bombay record of 16 days 1 hour 42 minutes in Sep 1932. Swimming pool added 1983. Converted for trooping 1940. Torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U407 off Oran, Algeria, 11 Nov 1942 after having landed her troops and their vehicles for Operation Torch; 4 lost.
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