RMS Lady Nelson
Lady Nelson as hospital ship
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 Canada
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| Name: | RMS Lady Nelson |
| Namesake: | Frances Nelson, wife of Royal Navy Admiral Horatio Nelson |
| Owner: | Canadian National Steamship Co |
| Port of registry: |
 Halifax, Nova Scotia
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| Route: | Halifax-Boston – Bermuda – Caribbean – British Guiana |
| Builder: | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, England |
| Completed: | 1928 |
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| Fate: | Scrapped 1968 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Lady-class ocean liner |
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| Length: | 419.5 ft (127.9 m) |
| Beam: | 59.1 ft (18.0 m) |
| Depth: | 28.2 ft (8.6 m) |
| Decks: | 3 |
| Propulsion: | steam turbines; twin screw |
| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Crew: | 107 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
direction finding equipment |
| Notes: | sister ships: Lady Drake, Lady Hawkins, Lady Rodney, Lady Somers |
RMS Lady Nelson was a steam turbine ocean liner which served in passenger service from 1928 to 1968 and operated as wartime hospital ship from 1943 to 1945. One of a class of five sister ships popularly known as "Lady Boats", she was built for the Canadian National Steamship Company (CNS). The five vessels were Royal Mail Ships that CNS operated from Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Caribbean via Bermuda. Lady Nelson was sold to Egyptian owners in 1953 and served as Gumhuryat Misr and Alwadi until she was scrapped in 1968.
Lady Nelson was built in 1928 by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead, on the Wirral in England, the same builder for all five Lady class liners. Like her sisters Lady Nelson was an oil-burner, with a set of four Cammell Laird steam turbines driving the propeller shafts to her twin screws by single-reduction gearing. She had three passenger decks, and by 1931 she was equipped with a direction finding device.
CN introduced the liners which became known as "Lady Boats" for mail, freight and passenger traffic between Canada, Bermuda and the Caribbean. Lady Nelson along with Lady Hawkins and Lady Drake were designed for service to eastern islands of the British West Indies and had larger passenger capacity but lesser cargo capacity than Lady Rodney and Lady Somers who were built for service to western islands. The hulls of all the Lady Boats were painted white, which then was a relatively new fashion among shipping companies, and confined largely to passenger ships serving tropical or sub-tropical destinations.
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