British coastal liner, armed boarding steamer and convoy rescue ship
This article is about the only British warship named HMS Perth. For Australian warships of the same name, see HMAS Perth.
History
Name
1915: Perth
1946: Lafonia
1950: Valfiorita
Namesake
1915: Perth
Owner
1915: Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Co Ltd
1946: Falkland Islands Company
1950: Lloyd Mediterraneo SpA
1960: Carlo Lolli-Ghetti & C, SpA
Operator
1915: Royal Navy
Port of registry
1915: Dundee
1950: Rome
1960: Venice / Ancona
Route
1919: Dundee – Tilbury
Builder
Caledon, Dundee
Yard number
240
Launched
15 April 1915
Completed
July 1915
Identification
UK official number 123346
code letters JLNW
1915: pennant number MI 23
1918: pennant number MI 17
1930: call sign GQXB
1950: call sign ICIU
Fate
scrapped in 1962
General characteristics
Type
coastal liner
Tonnage
2,502 GRT, 1,418 NRT
Length
280.2 ft (85.4 m)
Beam
40.2 ft (12.3 m)
Draught
17 ft 8 in (5.38 m)
Depth
17.7 ft (5.4 m)
Installed power
345 NHP
Propulsion
triple-expansion engine
Speed
14 knots (26 km/h)
Sensors and processing systems
echo sounding device (by 1934)
high-frequency direction finding (during WW2)
Armament
in WW1: 3 × 4.7 inch guns
HMS Perth was a steamship that was built in Scotland in 1915, renamed Lafonia in 1946 and Valfiorita in 1950, and scrapped in Italy in 1962. She was designed as a coastal passenger and cargo liner, but was completed in the First World War as an armed boarding steamer for the Royal Navy. In the Second World War she was converted into an ocean boarding vessel, and served also as a convoy rescue ship.
The ship did see merchant service: with the Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Company Ltd in the 1920s and 1930s, the Falkland Islands Company in the late 1950s, and with successive Italian from 1950 until she was scrapped in Italy in 1962.
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