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The RMS Alaunia (II) was an ocean liner put into service in 1925 by the British shipping company Cunard Line , which was used in passenger and mail traffic between Great Britain and Canada . In 1944 she was sold to the British Admiralty and broken up in Blyth in 1957 .
The ship
The 14,040 GRT steam turbine ship RMS Alaunia was built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank and launched on February 7, 1925. The 158.49 meter long and 19.87 meter wide passenger and mail ship was powered by steam turbines that made 8,500 SHP. The top speed was 15 knots. On board the ship there was space for 500 passengers in the cabin class and 1200 in the third class.
The Alaunia was one of six sister ships of the "A" class that the Cunard Line put into service in the first half of the 1920s. The others were the RMS Ausonia (II), the RMS Andania (II), the RMS Ascania (II), the RMS Antonia and the RMS Alaunia (III). On July 24, 1925, ran Alaunia in Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Quebec and Montreal from. From May 28, 1926, Southampton was also called . On July 29, 1939, the Alaunia set off on her last voyage in peacetime.
At the beginning of the war, the ship was converted to an armed auxiliary cruiser (Armed Merchant Cruiser) and carried out patrols in the Atlantic , later in the Indian Ocean . She was also used in escort service for some HX convoys , such as the HX 79 . In December 1944 she was bought by the Admiralty, converted into a workshop ship and put into service without a name change. She eventually served as a training ship for machine personnel and was scrapped in Blyth in 1957 .
