![]() HMS Mantua under way
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Name | Mantua |
Owner | Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company |
Builder | Caird & Company |
Yard number | 316 |
Launched | 10 February 1909 |
Completed | 15 April 1909 |
In service | 1914 |
Out of service | 1920 |
Refit | 1914 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1935 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Armed merchant cruiser |
Tonnage | 10,885 grt |
Length | 540 feet (165 metres) |
Beam | 61.3 feet |
Depth | 24.6 feet |
Propulsion | 2 x 4 cylinder screws 2 sails |
Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
Crew | 364 |
Armament | 8 x 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns 2x 6 pounder (57 mm) guns |
HMS Mantua was a 20th-century ocean liner and armed merchant cruiser. Launched in 1909 as a passenger ship, Mantua was outfitted as an armed merchant cruiser in 1914 and served with the Royal Navy during World War I.[1] On a voyage to Freetown in 1918, the passengers and crew of Mantua inadvertently spread the 1918 flu pandemic to Africa.[2][3][4]
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