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SS Queen of Bermuda
SS Queen of Bermuda was a British turbo-electric ocean liner that belonged to Furness, Withy & Co Ltd. Its Furness Bermuda Line subsidiary operated her between New York and Bermuda before and after the Second World War. During the war she served as first an armed merchant cruiser and then as a troop ship.
Furness, Withy ordered Queen of Bermuda to replace the liner MV Bermuda, which had been destroyed by fire in June 1931 after barely three and a half years' service. Queen of Bermuda was the sister ship of Monarch of Bermuda which had been launched in March 1931 and entered service that December.
Vickers-Armstrongs built Queen of Bermuda at its shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness. The ship was launched and christened on 2 September 1932 by Lady Cubitt, wife of the Governor of Bermuda, with a bottle of Empire wine.
She was 553.4 ft (168.7 m) long, had a beam of 76.7 ft (23.4 m) and draught of 27 ft (8.2 m). She was assessed as 22,575 GRT and 12,777 NRT. She had capacity for refrigerated cargo, and as built she had berths for 700 first class and 31 second class passengers.
The ship had eight water-tube boilers with a combined heating surface of 39,720 square feet (3,690 m2). The boilers supplied steam at 400 lbf/in2 to two steam turbines. The turbines drove electric generators that powered electric motors to drive her four screws, giving her a speed of 19 knots (35 km/h). The ship also featured a new innovations that included a cooling system with individual control knobs in each stateroom that passengers were able to regulate the temperature. As built, she had three funnels.
On February 27th, 1933 the Queen of Bermuda set sail on her maiden voyage, joining Monarch of Bermuda on scheduled services between New York and Hamilton, Bermuda. A round trip took six days.
In 1935 Albert Einstein used this ship to reach New York, and then moved to his home in Princeton, NJ
Just before the Second World War, on 29 August 1939 the Admiralty requisitioned the ship for conversion into an armed merchant cruiser. One of her three funnels was removed, either as a disguise or to improve the field of fire for her guns. Her primary armament was seven BL 6-inch Mk XII naval guns. Her secondary armament included two QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft guns.
SS Queen of Bermuda
SS Queen of Bermuda was a British turbo-electric ocean liner that belonged to Furness, Withy & Co Ltd. Its Furness Bermuda Line subsidiary operated her between New York and Bermuda before and after the Second World War. During the war she served as first an armed merchant cruiser and then as a troop ship.
Furness, Withy ordered Queen of Bermuda to replace the liner MV Bermuda, which had been destroyed by fire in June 1931 after barely three and a half years' service. Queen of Bermuda was the sister ship of Monarch of Bermuda which had been launched in March 1931 and entered service that December.
Vickers-Armstrongs built Queen of Bermuda at its shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness. The ship was launched and christened on 2 September 1932 by Lady Cubitt, wife of the Governor of Bermuda, with a bottle of Empire wine.
She was 553.4 ft (168.7 m) long, had a beam of 76.7 ft (23.4 m) and draught of 27 ft (8.2 m). She was assessed as 22,575 GRT and 12,777 NRT. She had capacity for refrigerated cargo, and as built she had berths for 700 first class and 31 second class passengers.
The ship had eight water-tube boilers with a combined heating surface of 39,720 square feet (3,690 m2). The boilers supplied steam at 400 lbf/in2 to two steam turbines. The turbines drove electric generators that powered electric motors to drive her four screws, giving her a speed of 19 knots (35 km/h). The ship also featured a new innovations that included a cooling system with individual control knobs in each stateroom that passengers were able to regulate the temperature. As built, she had three funnels.
On February 27th, 1933 the Queen of Bermuda set sail on her maiden voyage, joining Monarch of Bermuda on scheduled services between New York and Hamilton, Bermuda. A round trip took six days.
In 1935 Albert Einstein used this ship to reach New York, and then moved to his home in Princeton, NJ
Just before the Second World War, on 29 August 1939 the Admiralty requisitioned the ship for conversion into an armed merchant cruiser. One of her three funnels was removed, either as a disguise or to improve the field of fire for her guns. Her primary armament was seven BL 6-inch Mk XII naval guns. Her secondary armament included two QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft guns.
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