Otranto

Namesake: Otranto

Owner: Orient Steam Navigation Company
Port of registry: London
Route: UK–Australia
Ordered: c. 1908
Builder: Workman Clark & Co., Belfast
Yard number: 278
Laid down: c. 1908
Launched: 27 March 1909
Completed: 20 July 1909
Maiden voyage: 1 October 1909
Identification:

Official number: 124675[1]
Signal letters: HPKD

Fate: Requisitioned by the Admiralty, 4 August 1914
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Otranto
Acquired: 4 August 1914
Commissioned: 14 August 1914
Fate: Sank after collision, 6 October 1918
General characteristics
Type: Passenger liner / armed merchant cruiser
Tonnage:

12,124 gross register tons (GRT)
7,433 net register tons (NRT)

Length: 535 ft 4 in (163.2 m)
Beam: 64 ft (19.5 m)
Depth: 38 ft 8 in (11.8 m)
Installed power: 14,000 ihp (10,000 kW)
Propulsion:

2 × screws
2 × quadruple-expansion steam engines

Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Capacity:

Passengers:
235 1st class
186 2nd class
696 3rd class

Armament: 8 × 4.7 in (120 mm) guns

Details: Wikipedia

Photo Credits: The late Allan Green Collection Vic Australia