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    steam turbine that drove the middle screw propeller . Alcantara was launched on 30 October 1913 and made her maiden voyage in June 1914 on RMSP's route...
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  • HMS Alcantara can refer to either of two ocean liners which were used by the British Royal Navy (RN) in wartime, adopting the prefix "HMS" while in RN...
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    RMS Alcantara was a Royal Mail Lines ocean liner that was built in Belfast in 1926. She served in the Second World War first as an armed merchant cruiser...
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    Gray, p. 55 Pearsall, Part I, p. 210 Gardiner & Gray, pp. 55–56 "H.M.S. Arethusa (1913) - the Dreadnought Project". Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships...
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    Admiralty requisitioned Arlanza and her "A-series" sisters Avon, Andes and Alcantara for conversion into armed merchant cruisers. Arlanza was armed with six...
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    to enemy action, including three of its "A-series" passenger liners: Alcantara, Aragon and Asturias. After the 1918 Armistice RMSP prioritised the replacement...
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    at Liverpool she was commissioned into the 10th Cruiser Squadron as HMS Alcantara. Arlanza and Andes were also commissioned into the 10th Cruiser Squadron...
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  • The heavy cruiser HMS Suffolk led the escorts, supported by the light cruiser Aurora and three armed merchant cruisers: Alcantara from RML and Carthage...
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    HMS Hermes was a British aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy and was the world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier, although the...
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    merchantman HMS Alcantara, he was in command during the action with the German raider SMS Greif in the North Sea. On 29 February 1916, Alcantara with HMS Andes...
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