HMHS Newfoundland

History
United Kingdom
Name	RMS Newfoundland (1925–40); HMHS Newfoundland (?–1943);
Owner	Johnston Warren Lines (1925–40)
Operator	Furness, Withy & Co (1925–40)
Port of registry	Liverpool
Route	Liverpool – St John's, Newfoundland – Halifax, Nova Scotia – Boston, MA (1925–?)
Builder	Vickers, Sons & Maxim, Barrow-in-Furness
Yard number	617
Launched	24 January 1925
Completed	June 1925
Out of service	13 September 1943
Identification	UK official number 147312; code letters: KSPG (until 1933); ; Call sign: GKJF (from 1934); ;
Fate	Damaged by a Luftwaffe bomb 40 miles off Salerno, 13 September 1943 Scuttled, 14 September 1943
General characteristics
Type	Passenger ship;; Hospital ship;
Tonnage	6,791 GRT; 3,828 NRT
Length	406.1 ft (123.8 m)
Beam	55.4 ft (16.9 m)
Draught	31.8 ft (9.7 m)
Installed power	1,047 NHP
Propulsion	Vickers quadruple expansion steam engine
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Notes	sister ship: RMS Nova Scotia

HMHS Newfoundland was a British Royal Mail Ship that was requisitioned as a hospital ship in the World War II. She was sunk in 1943 in a Luftwaffe attack off southern Italy. At that point she was one of three ships brightly illuminated, bearing standard Red Cross markings as hospital ships, which was her function, so due protection under the Geneva Convention.

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