Armed merchant cruiser requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1914
Otranto in Orient Line service, 1909
History
United Kingdom
Name
Otranto
Namesake
Otranto
Owner
Orient Steam Navigation Company
Operator
Orient Steam Navigation Company
Port of registry
London
Route
London – Australia
Ordered
c. 1908
Builder
Workman, Clark and Company, Belfast
Yard number
278
Laid down
c. 1908
Launched
27 March 1909
Completed
20 July 1909
Maiden voyage
1 October 1909
Identification
UK official number 124675[1]
Code letters HPKD
Call sign MOD
Fate
Requisitioned, 4 August 1914
United Kingdom
Name
Otranto
Acquired
4 August 1914
Commissioned
14 August 1914
Identification
Pennant number:
1914: M 60
1918: MI 87
Fate
Sank after collision, 6 October 1918
General characteristics
Type
Ocean liner / AMC
Tonnage
12,124 GRT, 7,433 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 × screw propellers
2 × quadruple-expansion 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
HMS Otranto was an armed merchant cruiser requisitioned by the British Admiralty when World War I began in 1914. Built before the war for the UK–Australia run as SS Otranto, she was primarily used in the war to search for German commerce raiders. She played small roles in the Battle of Coronel in November 1914 when the German East Asia Squadron destroyed the British squadron searching for it and in the Battle of the Falkland Islands the following month when a British squadron annihilated the Germans in turn.
Apart from brief refits in the UK, Canada and Australia, she remained on this duty until early 1918 when she became a troop ship. During a severe storm off the Isle of Islay in late 1918, she accidentally collided with another troop ship, HMS Kashmir (1915) and was forced ashore by the storm, killing 470 passengers, mainly American soldiers, and crewmen.
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