H.M.S. Queen of Bermuda
F.73
1940
(Albatros ALK-122)
- Class: Armed Merchant Cruiser
- Displacement: 22,575 tons
- Dimensions: 580 x 76 ft.
- Machinery: Steam turboelectric engines, quadruple screw, 20,000 SHP = 19 knots
- Armament: 7-6 in. (7x1), 2-3 in. A.A. (2x1) guns
- Aircraft: 2 Fairey Seafox
- Complement:
- Builder: Vickers-Armstrong Shipbuilders, Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness, England
- Launched: 1933
- Commissioned: 28 Oct 1939
- Service: Queen of Bermuda built for Furness-Bermuda Line, New York-Bermuda service. Maiden voyage Liverpool-New York, 14 Feb 1933. Normal capacity 731 passengers (700 first class, 31 second class). One of three original funnels removed for war service, 1939-1946, first as armed
merchant cruiser, then as transport after 1943 with capacity for 4500 troops. Resumed Bermuda service, 1949. Rebuilt with single funnel, 1961-62. Scrapped in Scotland, 1966-67.
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