Category:Laurentic (ship, 1927)

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Ship

Type: Ocean liner
Design by:
Order date:
Built by: Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast
Yard No: 470
Keel laid:
Launch date:
Date of completion: 1927
Length over all: 176,2 m
LPP: m
Beam: 23 m
Draught: 12,4 m
GRT: 18724
DWT:
NET:
Main engines: Triple expansion engines & L.P. turbine, 3 screws
Speed: 17 kn

History

1927 Named: Laurentic for the White Star Line, Oceanic Steam Nav. Co., Ismay, Liverpool Flag: United Kingdom
26.08.1939 Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an armed merchant cruiser.
15.10.1939 Conversion was completed
03.11.1940 22.50 hours the first torpedo of the U-99, Fregattenkapitän Otto Kretschmer, struck HMS Laurentic (F 51) from a range of 1,500 metres.

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SS Laurentic

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Instance of

ocean liner

Owned by

White Star Line

Operator

Manufacturer

Harland and Wolff

Location of creation

Belfast

Yard number

470

Shipping port

Liverpool

Country of registry

United Kingdom

Service entry

1927

Significant event

ship launching (1927)

Beam

22.89 m

Draft

12.4 m

Length

176.23 m

Map

54° 09′ 00″ N, 13° 44′ 00″ W

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Media in category "Laurentic (ship, 1927)"

The following 12 files are in this category, out of 12 total.

Bundesarchiv Bild Bild 183-2004-0504-500, Interview Otto Kretschmer mit einem Radioreporter.jpg 554 × 800; 251 KB
Laurentic.jpg 392 × 248; 28 KB
Laurentic2.jpg 392 × 249; 31 KB
Palestine disturbances 1936. General view of the troops on the Haifa quay after disembarking from the Laurentic which looms up in the picture on the right LOC matpc.18184 (cropped).jpg 4,332 × 3,148; 1.61 MB
Palestine disturbances 1936. General view of the troops on the Haifa quay after disembarking from the Laurentic which looms up in the picture on the right LOC matpc.18184.jpg 5,006 × 3,573; 1.75 MB
Palestine disturbances 1936. Haifa harbour, The S.S. Laurentic which carried the troops, is seen in the distance, cruisers in harbour LOC matpc.18178 (cropped).jpg 4,347 × 3,156; 2.12 MB
Palestine disturbances 1936. Haifa harbour, The S.S. Laurentic which carried the troops, is seen in the distance, cruisers in harbour LOC matpc.18178.jpg 5,259 × 3,745; 2.24 MB
Palestine disturbances 1936. The luxury liner Laurentic docked in Haifa. Mt. Carmel is conspicuously seen in the background LOC matpc.18179 (cropped) (cropped).jpg 2,508 × 1,882; 765 KB
Palestine disturbances 1936. The luxury liner Laurentic docked in Haifa. Mt. Carmel is conspicuously seen in the background LOC matpc.18179 (cropped).jpg 3,942 × 2,909; 1.76 MB
Palestine disturbances 1936. The luxury liner Laurentic docked in Haifa. Mt. Carmel is conspicuously seen in the background LOC matpc.18179.jpg 4,632 × 3,374; 1.9 MB
Rum Issue, John Worsley.jpg 316 × 400; 164 KB
SS Laurentic 1929.jpg 2,042 × 1,260; 1.05 MB

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