HMS Glengyle

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Glengyle
Builder	Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee
Launched	18 July 1939
Commissioned	10 September 1940
Out of service	Returned to Glen Line 17 July 1946
Renamed	Deucalion in October 1970
Fate	Scrapped by June 1971
General characteristics
Tonnage	9,919 GRT
Length	507 ft 6 in (154.69 m)
Beam	66 ft 4 in (20.22 m)
Draught	30 ft 6 in (9.30 m)
Installed power	12,000 bhp
Propulsion	Diesel engines 2 shafts
Speed	18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Capacity	34 officers 663 other ranks
Complement	523
Armament	3 × twin QF 4 inch Mark XVI gun 2 × quad QF 2 pounder naval gun (pom-pom) 12 × 20mm Mark I IA

HMS Glengyle was a 9,919 GRT cargo ship that served in the Second World War as an infantry landing ship (large) of the Royal Navy. She carried Commonwealth and other Allied troops in amphibious operations. Glengyle was able to make good speed on long ocean voyages to operational areas and then with its landing craft, transport assault infantry, vehicles and stores to defended shores.