HMHS Asturias information

	Asturias in RMSP livery as an ocean liner
History
United Kingdom
Name	Asturias
Owner	Royal Mail Steam Packet Co
Operator	Royal Mail Steam Packet Co
Port of registry	Belfast
Route	Southampton – Buenos Aires
Builder	Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Yard number	388
Launched	26 September 1907
Completed	8 January 1908
Maiden voyage	1908
Identification	UK Official number: 124669; Code letters: HMDB; ; Call sign MBB;
Fate	Requisitioned by the British Admiralty
United Kingdom
Name	HMHS Asturias
Operator	Royal Navy
Fate	Returned to owners
Notes	Torpedoed and beached 20–21 March 1917
United Kingdom
Name	Arcadian
Owner	Royal Mail Steam Packet Co
Operator	Royal Mail Steam Packet Co
In service	1923
Out of service	1930
Fate	Scrapped in 1933
Notes	Converted to cruise ship, 1922–23
General characteristics
Class and type	RMSP "A" series
Type	Ocean liner (1908–14); Hospital ship (1914–17); Ammunition hulk (1917–19); Cruise ship (1923–33);
Tonnage	12,015 GRT; 8,156 tonnage under deck; 6,892 NRT;
Length	520.3 ft (158.6 m) p/p
Beam	62.3 ft (19.0 m)
Depth	31.8 ft (9.7 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	924 NHP
Propulsion	2 x quadruple expansion engines;; twin Propeller;
Armament	2 × stern-mounted QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns (as DAMS, 1913–14)
Notes	Sister ships:; Amazon, Aragon, Araguaya, Avon;

RMS Asturias was a Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ocean liner that was built in Ireland in 1908 and scrapped in Japan in 1933. She was a Royal Mail Ship until 1914, when on the eve of the First World War the British Admiralty requisitioned her as a hospital ship.

In 1917 a German U-boat torpedoed Asturias but her crew managed to beach her. She was raised and towed into port and spent the next two years as an ammunition hulk. In 1922–23 RMSP had her repaired and re-fitted as the cruise ship Arcadian. She was laid up in 1930 and sold for scrap in 1933.

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History
Asturias in RMSP livery as an ocean liner
United Kingdom
Name	Asturias
Owner	Royal Mail Steam Packet Co
Operator	Royal Mail Steam Packet Co
Port of registry	Belfast
Route	Southampton – Buenos Aires
Builder	Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Yard number	388
Launched	26 September 1907
Completed	8 January 1908
Maiden voyage	1908
Identification	UK Official number: 124669 Code letters: HMDB Call sign MBB
Fate	Requisitioned by the British Admiralty
United Kingdom
Name	HMHS Asturias
Operator	Royal Navy
Fate	Returned to owners
Notes	Torpedoed and beached 20–21 March 1917
United Kingdom
Name	Arcadian
Owner	Royal Mail Steam Packet Co
Operator	Royal Mail Steam Packet Co
In service	1923
Out of service	1930
Fate	Scrapped in 1933
Notes	Converted to cruise ship, 1922–23
General characteristics
Class and type	RMSP "A" series
Type	Ocean liner (1908–14) Hospital ship (1914–17) Ammunition hulk (1917–19) Cruise ship (1923–33)
Tonnage	12,015 GRT 8,156 tonnage under deck 6,892 NRT
Length	520.3 ft (158.6 m) p/p
Beam	62.3 ft (19.0 m)
Depth	31.8 ft (9.7 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	924 NHP
Propulsion	2 x quadruple expansion engines; twin Propeller
Armament	2 × stern-mounted QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns (as DAMS, 1913–14)
Notes	Sister ships: Amazon, Aragon, Araguaya, Avon