For other ships with the same name, see RMS Aurania.
as HMS Artifex
History
United Kingdom
Name
RMS Aurania
Builder
Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne
Launched
6 February 1924
Out of service
Requisitioned on 30 August 1939
Purchased on 24 March 1942
United Kingdom
Name
HMS Artifex
Acquired
Requisitioned on 30 August 1939
Purchased outright on 24 March 1942
Commissioned
August 1944
Renamed
Renamed HMS Artifex in November 1942
Reclassified
Armed Merchant Cruiser on 2 October 1939
Repair ship in 1944
Identification
Pennant number F28
Fate
Scrapped in 1961
General characteristics
Tonnage
13,984 GRT
Length
520 ft (160 m)
Beam
65 ft (20 m)
Propulsion
Steam turbines
Speed
15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Armament
(As AMC) 8 × 6 inch (152 mm) guns
2 × 3 inch (76 mm) guns
HMS Artifex was a repair ship of the Royal Navy from late in the Second World War and into the Cold War.
Launched as the Cunard liner RMS Aurania she was requisitioned on the outbreak of war to serve as an armed merchant cruiser. Damaged by a U-boat while sailing with an Atlantic convoy, she was purchased outright and converted to a floating workshop, spending the rest of her life as a support ship for the navy.
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