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Description: | Scale: 1:96. The last of a class of ships built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, for the Royal Mail Line?s (RML) South American service. 'Almanzora' was launched in 1914 and commissioned in the following year, like her sister ship ?Andes? (SLR1410), as an armed merchant cruiser, attached to the Tenth Cruiser Squadron. She was engaged mainly in convoy service in the North and Central Atlantic.
Reconditioned after war service, ?Almanzora? made her maiden voyage as a passenger liner in 1920. Her first-class accommodation was elaborately decorated in the Tudor and Jacobean styles and she also had a winter garden, a new feature for a ship on the South American line. After an uneventful peacetime career, she was on her last voyage from South America in 1939 when war broke out.
She was immediately requisitioned as a troopship and during her war service, ?Almanzora? made many voyages to South and East Africa, later taking part in the Sicilian landings. She survived both a collision with another RML ship, ?Orduna? (see SLR1421), in the Red Sea, and one with a German aircraft, which crashed into her hull. Her final task was the repatriation of European nationals after the end of the war. She was broken up at Blythe, Scotland, in 1948.
CA: AAA.
caption: Almanzora - Port broadside
caption: Almanzora - Propellers
caption: Almanzora - Bridge | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum full hull ship models Almanzora 1914 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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