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RMS ''Lady Hawkins'' was a steam turbine ocean liner. She was one of a class of five sister ships popularly known as "Lady Boats" that Cammell Laird of Birkenhead, England built in 1928 and 1929 for the Canadian National Steamship Company (CNS). The five vessels were Royal Mail Ships that CN operated from Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Caribbean ''via'' Bermuda. In 1942 the sank ''Lady Hawkins'' in the North Atlantic, killing 251 of the 322 people aboard. ==Building and peacetime service== Cammell Laird of Birkenhead, on the Wirral in England built all five ''Lady''-liners, and completed ''Lady Hawkins'' in November 1928. ''Lady Hawkins'' was an oil-burner, with a set of four Cammell Laird steam turbines driving the propeller shafts to her twin screws by single-reduction gearing. She had three passenger decks, and by 1931 she was equipped with a direction finding device. CN introduced the liners which became known as "Lady Boats" for mail, freight and passenger traffic between Canada, Bermuda and the Caribbean. The company wanted to develop Canadian exports including lumber, and imports to Canada including fruit, sugar and molasses. Each ''Lady''-liner had refrigerated holds for perishable cargo such as fruit, and capacity for 100,000 bunches of bananas. Their hulls were painted white, which then was a relatively new fashion among shipping companies, and confined largely to passenger ships serving tropical or sub-tropical destinations. , ''Lady Hawkins'' and sailed fortnightly between Halifax and British Guiana ''via'' Boston, Bermuda, the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands and Barbados. In summer the route was extended to the Montreal. CN named each of its five new liners after the wife of an English or British admiral who was noted for his actions in the Caribbean, and who had been knighted or ennobled. ''Lady Hawkins'' was named after Lady Katherine, the wife of the Elizabethan Admiral Sir John Hawkins (1532–95). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RMS Lady Hawkins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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