Category:Otranto (ship, 1909)

**HMS Otranto**
	merchant cruiser ship requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1914
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Instance of	merchant vessel; naval vessel;
Call sign	HPKD;
Country of origin	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;
Operator	Royal Navy;
Manufacturer	Workman, Clark and Company;
Location of creation	Belfast;
Yard number	278;
Shipping port	London;
Country of registry	United Kingdom;
Service entry	1909;
Significant event	ship commissioning (1914); ship launching (1909); ship completed (1909);
Beam	19.5 m;
Draft	11.8 m;
Length	163.2 m;
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English: Otranto was built as a passenger liner in 1909. She was requisitioned as an auxiliary cruiser and troop ship in the First World War. In October 1918 she was part of a convoy taking US soldiers to Glasgow and Liverpool. On 6 Oct 1918 she was involved in a collision with HMS Kashmir and sank.^[1]^[2]

Media in category "Otranto (ship, 1909)"

The following 35 files are in this category, out of 35 total.

'Otranto' (1909) RMG G10736.tiff 2,000 × 1,580; 9.04 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - American military funeral in Belfast, Ireland, Oct. 11, 1918, twelve American soldiers victims of Otranto and also several pneumonia cases, were burie(...) - NARA - 45503559.jpg 8,488 × 5,848; 18.77 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - American Red Cross and Army officers, relief workers in the Ontario disaster - NARA - 45503477.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 19.81 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - American soldier survivors of Otranto find friends - NARA - 45503473.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 17.83 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - American soldiers make coffins for their comrades who were lost in the Otranto disaster - NARA - 45503601.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 18.51 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - American survivors saying goodbye to two Scotch boys who them and nursed them in their little cottage by the sea - NARA - 45503599.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 18.5 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Funeral of 199 American soldiers, victims of the Otranto disaster, at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland - NARA - 45503527.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 19.75 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Funeral of twelve American victims of the disaster of the Otranto, at Belfast, Ireland - NARA - 45503545.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 21.06 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Funeral of victims of Otranto disaster - NARA - 45503551.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 19.56 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Kilchoman Church at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. From this church was buried nearly four hundred victims of the Otranto disaster - NARA - 45503513 (cropped).jpg 4,470 × 3,281; 6.46 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Kilchoman Church at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. From this church was buried nearly four hundred victims of the Otranto disaster - NARA - 45503513.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 20.16 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Last of the Otranto survivors leaving Bridgend, Islay, Scotland, for an American camp in England - NARA - 45503607.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 18.71 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Lieut. James Jefers and Pvt. S.H. Dawson selecting sheep for feeding survivors of the Otranto wreck off the coast of Scotland - NARA - 45503481.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 18.44 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Otranto disaster - NARA - 45503593.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 19.63 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Otranto disaster - NARA - 45503595.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 19.96 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Otranto disaster - NARA - 45503597.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 20.07 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Otranto disaster. Piper Woodrow, of the Seaforth Highlanders, who furnished the martial music at the funeral of the vic - DPLA - 7714587d9d5740052a8d7079a78b72d4.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 21.42 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Otranto survivor shown London sights - NARA - 45503489.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 18.99 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Relief worker in Otranto disaster, Miss Sarah Hyland - NARA - 45503505.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 18.69 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Scotch Family opens homes to Otranto survivors - NARA - 45503491.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 18.84 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland - NARA - 45503561.jpg 8,456 × 5,680; 18.4 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Some of the hardest workers in task of rescue and recovery after the disaster of Otranto - NARA - 45503519.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 19.43 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Some of the men who did excellent work in the Otranto disaster - NARA - 45503511.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 19.6 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Supplies for the Otranto survivors arriving at Islay, Scotland - NARA - 45503603.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 19.01 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Survivors of the Otranto - NARA - 45503475.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 19.86 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - The scene of the Otranto disaster, Islay, Scotland - NARA - 45503555.jpg 9,153 × 6,289; 8.5 MB
Military Operations - Accidents & Wrecks (Otranto Disaster) - Victims of Otranto disaster. American soldiers laid out for burial in the churchyard at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. The - DPLA - bf77c87a207f6dacab42aa93c1397938.jpg 9,180 × 6,305; 21.34 MB
Orient Line passenger liner SS 'Otranto'.jpg 550 × 330; 89 KB
Orient Line passenger ship SS 'Otranto'.jpg 560 × 442; 142 KB
HMS Otranto IWM SP 001064.jpg 800 × 618; 47 KB
Personnel - Foreign Military Officers (165-WW-437A-12) - DPLA - 83b91d63ef738185e2848754cada036f.jpg 9,179 × 6,301; 21.87 MB
StateLibQld 1 179471 Otranto (ship).jpg 1,000 × 626; 72 KB
StateLibQld 1 185987 Painting of the passenger ship Otranto.jpg 1,000 × 621; 83 KB
US certificate of honour for Michael Carroll.jpg 2,925 × 2,275; 686 KB
War graves cemetery at Kilchoman - geograph.org.uk - 755202.jpg 640 × 480; 97 KB

[1] www.armin-grewe.com - islay-otranto

[2] New York Times,October 12, 1918

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