steam turbine that drove the middle screw propeller . Alcantara was launched on 30 October 1913 and made her maiden voyage in June 1914 on RMSP's route...

HMS Alcantara can refer to either of two ocean liners which were used by the British Royal Navy (RN) in wartime, adopting the prefix "HMS" while in RN...

RMS Alcantara was a Royal Mail Lines ocean liner that was built in Belfast in 1926. She served in the Second World War first as an armed merchant cruiser...

Gray, p. 55 Pearsall, Part I, p. 210 Gardiner & Gray, pp. 55–56 "H.M.S. Arethusa (1913) - the Dreadnought Project". Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships...

Admiralty requisitioned Arlanza and her "A-series" sisters Avon, Andes and Alcantara for conversion into armed merchant cruisers. Arlanza was armed with six...

to enemy action, including three of its "A-series" passenger liners: Alcantara, Aragon and Asturias. After the 1918 Armistice RMSP prioritised the replacement...

at Liverpool she was commissioned into the 10th Cruiser Squadron as HMS Alcantara. Arlanza and Andes were also commissioned into the 10th Cruiser Squadron...

The heavy cruiser HMS Suffolk led the escorts, supported by the light cruiser Aurora and three armed merchant cruisers: Alcantara from RML and Carthage...

HMS Hermes was a British aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy and was the world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier, although the...

merchantman HMS Alcantara, he was in command during the action with the German raider SMS Greif in the North Sea. On 29 February 1916, Alcantara with HMS Andes...

Fleet. In 1916, Munster rescued survivors from the armed merchantman Alcantara and then fought in the Battle of Jutland as part of the Twelfth Destroyer...

1920. HMS Abercrombie Abosso Alcantara Almanzora Appam Arlanza Arundel Castle Atlantis Belgenland Britannic Calgaric HMS Vindictive (launched as HMS Cavendish)...

way to Alexandria. While still en route, they met the British battleships HMS Royal Sovereign and Malaya, after which the cruisers departed, leaving the...

finally convinced of the superiority of the all-big-gun battleship like HMS Dreadnought over the mixed-calibre designs like the Danton class which had...

Navy was convinced of the superiority of the all-big-gun battleship like HMS Dreadnought over mixed-calibre designs such as the Danton class, which preceded...

Science. Retrieved February 18, 2022. "Submarine goes down, in collision with HMS Hazard". The Daily News. No. 20, 562. London. 3 February 1912. p. 1. Retrieved...

commerce raider as Rena. The first was SMS Greif a year earlier, which HMS Alcantara sank before she had a chance to attack any Allied shipping. On 9 January...

1917. RMS Africa 1850 Sold for refit as a sailing ship in 1868 RMS Alcantara 1913 Attacked by German merchant raiders, and sank on February 29, 1916 SS Algonquin...

(1994). A Naval History of World War I. London: Routledge. p. 386. "The HMS Bulwark Explosion". Disasters in Medway. 2009. Archived from the original...

- occurred on ground before launch 21 22 August 2003 2003 Alcântara VLS accident, Alcântara, Brazil – occurred on ground before launch 7 28 January 1986...

ships followed from Harland and Wolff: Arlanza in 1912, Andes and Alcantara in 1913 and Almanzora in 1915. Apart from being larger again, they differed...

Wissmann 10 Feb: HMS Arabis 11 Feb: HMS Arethusa 12 Feb: Leicester 21 Feb: Marechiaro 26 Feb: Provence II 27 Feb: Maloja 29 Feb: HMS Alcantara, SMS Greif 1915...

acquired 1717) - Discarded 1724? Nossa Senhora do Cabo e São Pedro de Alcântara 72 (probably ex-Dutch Zeelandia or Gelderland 72, acquired 1717) - Captured...

that was built in England as Rocklands in 1881, renamed Franz Fischer in 1913, and sunk by enemy action in 1916. She was owned and registered in Britain...

sold 1912 & renamed Poleric, scrapped 1930 Alcantara Royal Mail SP Co 1913 1916 Sunk by enemy action Alcantara Royal Mail SP Co 1926 1958 Scrapped Almanzora...

Corporal 5 Jul: Liguria 9 Jul: HMS Foxglove 10 Jul: HMS Corfu, HMS Hermes 16 Jul: HMS Glasgow 27 Jul: Lepanto 28 Jul: HMS Alcantara 1939 1940 1941 June 1940...

the final four "A-liners" were built: Arlanza in 1912, Andes and Alcantara in 1913 and Almanzora in 1915. Earlier members of the series, from Aragon...

His body arrived in Lisbon on 2 August 1932, on board the British cruiser HMS Concord which had made the journey from the United Kingdom and sailed into...

Geoffrey B. "HMS Abdiel - Abdiel-class Fast Cruiser Minelayer". Naval-history.net. Retrieved 18 October 2012. Helgason, Guðmundur. "HMS Arbutus (K 86)...

the MS and LR became the Great Central Railway. On 8 May 1913, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Express struck Leicester in the dock at Grimsby and damaged...