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RMS Alcantara (1926)
RMS ''Alcantara'' was a Royal Mail Lines ocean liner that was built in Belfast in 1926. She served in the Second World War as first an armed merchant cruiser and then a troop ship, was returned to civilian service in 1948 and scrapped in 1958.
==Background==
In the First World War the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company lost a number of ships to enemy action, including three of its "A-series" passenger liners: , and . After the 1918 Armistice RMSP prioritised the replacement of lost cargo ships, using new refrigerated cargo ships to take a share of the growing trade in frozen meat from South America to the UK.
High demand for new merchant ships to replace First World War losses kept shipbuilding prices high, so RMSP Chairman Lord Kylsant deferred ordering any new passenger liners for a few years. However, in 1921 Parliament passed the Trade Facilities Act, which offered low-interest loans and Government guarantees for repayment. In 1924 Kylsant took advantage of the Act by ordering from Harland and Wolff of Belfast a pair of passenger liners with a speed of .
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