The RMS Arlanza (I) was a passenger ship put into service in 1912 by the British shipping company Royal Mail Line . After 26 years of service, the ship was scrapped in Blyth in 1938 .
The ship
The 15,044 GRT steamship Arlanza was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast , Northern Ireland , and was launched on November 23, 1911. The 173.8 meter long and 19.9 wide passenger and mail ship had a chimney, two masts and three propellers and was propelled by triple expansion steam engines that allowed a speed of 17 knots. The passenger accommodations were designed for 380 first class passengers, 250 second class passengers and 700 third class passengers. She was the sister ship of the Andes (I) (15,620 GRT) , which was commissioned in 1913 .
The Arlanza was put into service for the passenger and postal service from Southampton to South America . It was built on the same slipway on which the White Star Line's Olympic was built. Construction of the Britannic , the sister ship of the Olympic and the Titanic, began next on the same slipway .
From 1915 to 1920, served Arlanza as an armed merchant cruiser (Armed Merchant Cruiser) in the First World War . After the end of the war, the Arlanza was again active in civil passenger traffic until it was scrapped in Blyth in September 1938 .
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