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HMS Otranto
HMS ''Otranto'' was an armed merchant cruiser requisitioned by the Royal Navy when World War I began in 1914. Built before the war for the UK–Australia run as the SS ''Otranto'', she was primarily used during the war to search for German commerce raiders. She played small roles in the Battle of Coronel in November 1914 when the German East Asia Squadron destroyed the British squadron searching for it and in the Battle of the Falklands the following month when a British squadron annihilated the Germans in turn.
Apart from brief refits in the UK, Canada and Australia, she remained on this duty until early 1918 when she became a troopship. During a severe storm off the Isle of Islay in late 1918, she was rammed by another troopship and forced ashore by the storm, killing 470 passengers (American soldiers) and crewmen.
==Description==
''Otranto'' had an overall length of , a beam of , and a moulded depth of . She had tonnages of and . The ship was fitted with two 4-cylinder quadruple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller. The engines had a total power of and gave ''Otranto'' a top speed of .〔Osborne, Spong & Grover, p. 130〕 She had a capacity of 235 first-class, 186 second-class and 696 third-class passengers.〔
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