HMHS Lanfranc

	Lanfranc under way
History
United Kingdom
Name	Lanfranc
Namesake	Lanfranc
Owner	Booth Steamship Co
Operator	Booth Steamship Co 1907–14; Royal Navy 1914–17;
Port of registry	Liverpool
Route	Liverpool – Brazil
Builder	Caledon Shipbldg & Eng Co, Dundee
Cost	£122,000
Yard number	189
Launched	18 October 1906
Completed	February 1907
Identification	UK official number 124034; Code letters HKDM; ; Call sign MDS;
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk on 17 April 1917
General characteristics
Type	1907: Ocean liner; 1914: Hospital ship;
Tonnage	6,275 GRT, 3,655 NRT
Length	418.5 ft (127.6 m)
Beam	52.2 ft (15.9 m)
Installed power	850 NHP
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion engines; 2 × screws;
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Capacity	as hospital ship: 403 wounded
Crew	123, plus 52 RAMC personnel as hospital ship

HMHS Lanfranc was a Booth Line passenger steamship that was built in Scotland in 1907 and operated scheduled services between Liverpool and Brazil until 1914. In the First World War she was a hospital ship until a U-boat sank her in the English Channel in 1917.

This was the second Lanfranc in Booth's fleet. The first was an iron-hulled steamship that was built in 1884, sold in 1898 and renamed Olympia.

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