HMHS Lanfranc
Lanfranc under way | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Lanfranc |
| Namesake | Lanfranc |
| Owner | Booth Steamship Co |
| Operator |
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| Port of registry | Liverpool |
| Route | Liverpool – Brazil |
| Builder | Caledon Shipbldg & Eng Co, Dundee |
| Cost | £122,000 |
| Yard number | 189 |
| Launched | 18 October 1906 |
| Completed | February 1907 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Torpedoed and sunk on 17 April 1917 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type |
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| Tonnage | 6,275 GRT, 3,655 NRT |
| Length | 418.5 ft (127.6 m) |
| Beam | 52.2 ft (15.9 m) |
| Installed power | 850 NHP |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Capacity | as hospital ship: 403 wounded |
| Crew | 123, plus 52 RAMC personnel as hospital ship |
HMHS Lanfranc was a Booth Line passenger steamship that was built in Scotland in 1907 and operated scheduled services between Liverpool and Brazil until 1914. In the First World War she was a hospital ship until a U-boat sank her in the English Channel in 1917.
This was the second Lanfranc in Booth's fleet. The first was an iron-hulled steamship that was built in 1884, sold in 1898 and renamed Olympia.