3 double- & 2 single-ended forced draught boilers supplying steam at max pressure 210 lbf/in2
Speed
15 knots (28 km/h) (service)
16 knots (30 km/h) (max)
Capacity
(As built)
516 cabin class
1,000 third class
(After 1927)
298 cabin class
310 tourist class
964 third class
(As hospital ship)
1,000 patients
(As 1949 emigration ship)
965 emigrants
(As 1951 emigration ship)
1,088 passengers in two, four, and six berth cabins
Armament
As an armed merchant cruiser:
8 × 6-inch (150 mm) guns
2 × 3-inch (76 mm) guns
SS Letitia was an ocean liner built in Scotland for service with the Anchor-Donaldson Line. She continued to serve with its successor company Donaldson Atlantic Line. At the start of the Second World War in September 1939, the British Admiralty requisitioned the ship for service and had it converted to serve as an armed merchant cruiser. She was withdrawn from this service in 1941 to become a troop ship.
Badly damaged in 1943, after being repaired the Letitia was used as a hospital ship in Canada. She was returned to civilian service in 1946 after the end of the war. She was bought by the Ministry of Transport, which renamed her as Empire Brent and assigned Donaldson Brothers and Black to manage her. She sailed on a number of voyages, at times carrying troops to the Far East, as well as being an emigration ship to Australia. She was briefly laid up in 1950. She was returned to service under charter to the Government of New Zealand as Captain Cook. She was withdrawn from service in 1960 and sold for scrap.
^"Register of Ships, Em-Ex". Gilbert Provost. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
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