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SS Lancashire
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History
Name SS Lancashire
Owner Bibby Line
Builder Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Launched 1917
Fate scrapped at Barrow in April 1956.
General characteristics
Type passenger ship
Tonnage 9,543 tons
Length 502 ft
Beam 57 ft
Depth 35 ft 10 in
Speed 15 knots



Remarks

Built for the Bibby Line and immediately requisitioned. Released to the Bibby Line in 1920 and refitted for normal passenger use. Converted in 1930 to a permanent troopship. During WW2 was used as a command ship at Juno Beach D-Day landings, assisted with the repatriation of sick ex POWs from Hong Kong , before being scrapped at Barrow in 1956.

Soldiers carried

England to Fremantle 7 February - 21 March 1919