![]() Duchess of York
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Name | Duchess of York |
Namesake | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York |
Owner | Canadian Pacific Railway Co |
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Port of registry | London |
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Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
Yard number | 524[1] |
Launched | 28 September 1928[1] |
Completed | March 1929 |
Maiden voyage | 22 March 1929 |
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Fate | Damaged by German air attack 11 July 1943. Sunk the next day by the Royal Navy. |
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Tonnage | |
Length | 581.9 ft (177.4 m) |
Beam | 75.2 ft (22.9 m) |
Draught | 27 ft 6+3⁄4 in (8.4 m) |
Depth | 41.7 ft (12.7 m) |
Decks | 4 |
Installed power | 3,557 NHP |
Propulsion | Six steam turbines, twin propellers |
Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)[1] |
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Crew | 510 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Notes | Sister ships: Duchess of Atholl, Duchess of Bedford, Duchess of Richmond |
SS Duchess of York was one of a class of four steam turbine ocean liners built in Glasgow in 1927–29 for Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd's transatlantic service between Britain and Canada.
In the Second World War Duchess of York was converted into a troop ship. In 1943 an attack by enemy aircraft killed 27 people aboard her and left the ship burning and badly damaged. The Royal Navy sank her the next day.
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