RMS Nova Scotia (1926)
| History | |
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 United Kingdom
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| Namesake: | Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Owner: |
Johnston Warren Lines (1926–41) Ministry of War Transport (1941–42) |
| Operator: | Furness, Withy & Co |
| Port of registry: |
 Liverpool
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| Route: | Liverpool – St John's, Newfoundland – Halifax, Nova Scotia – Boston, MA (1926–41) |
| Builder: | Vickers, Sons & Maxim, Ltd |
| Yard number: | 623 |
| Launched: | May 1926 |
| Out of service: | 28 November 1942 |
| Identification: |
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| Fate: | Sunk by U-177,28 November,1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | |
| Tonnage: | |
| Length: | 406.1 ft (123.8 m) p/p |
| Beam: | 55.4 ft (16.9 m) |
| Draught: | 34 ft 4 in (10.46 m) |
| Depth: | 31.8 ft (9.7 m) |
| Installed power: | 1,047 NHP |
| Propulsion: | quadruple expansion steam engine |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Crew: | 113 (1942) |
| Notes: | sister ship: RMS Newfoundland |
Johnston Warren Lines (1926–41)
RMS Nova Scotia was a 6,796 GRT UK transatlantic ocean liner and Royal Mail Ship. In World War II she was requisitioned as a troop ship. In 1942 a German submarine sank her in the Indian Ocean with the loss of 858 of the 1,052 people aboard.
Vickers, Sons & Maxim, Ltd of Barrow-in-Furness built Nova Scotia for Furness, Withy & Co of Liverpool. She was the sister ship of RMS Newfoundland, which Vickers had launched for the same owner 11 months previously. Her 1,047 NHP quadruple expansion steam engine was fed by five 215 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a total heating surface of 16,095 square feet (1,495 m2). Her boilers were heated by 20 oil-fuelled corrugated furnaces with a grate surface of 377 square feet (35 m2). Her boat deck had six lifeboats, mounted on Welin-Maclachlan davits.
Nova Scotia joined Newfoundland on Furness, Withy's regular transatlantic mail route between Liverpool and Boston via St John's, Newfoundland and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Passengers included Roald Dahl, then aged 17, who in August 1934 was one of 50 public school boys who sailed from Liverpool on an expedition to Newfoundland of the recently founded Public Schools Exploring Society. Their passage to St John's took a week.
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