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SS Ranchi

From Graces Guide
1926.

The SS Ranchi was a British passenger and cargo carrying ocean liner. During World War II she served as an armed merchant cruiser HMS Ranchi.

The SS Ranchi was built for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P&O) by Hawthorn Leslie and Co at Newcastle Upon Tyne, England and was launched on 24 January 1925. Her gross registered tonnage was 16,650, her length was 547 feet and her beam 71 feet. She was one of the P&O 'R' class liners from 1925 that had much of their interiors designed by Lord Inchcape's daughter Elsie Mackay.[1]


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