This ship, not to be confused with RMS Alcantara (1926), was in service from 1914-16.
It was operated by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.
Builder: Harland and Wolff
Yard number: 435
Launched: October 1913
Completed: 28 May 1914
Commissioned: April 1915
Maiden voyage: June 1914
Fate: sunk 29 February 1916
General characteristics
Class & type: A-series
Type: passenger liner (1914–15)
armed merchant cruiser (1915–16)
Tonnage: 15,831 GRT
Propulsion: 2 × quadruple-expansion engines, 1 × low-pressure steam turbine, triple screws
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
Armament: 6 × 6 in (150 mm) guns
2 × 3 pdr guns
Notes: sister ships:
Arlanza, Andes, Almanzora
SS Alcantara was an ocean liner that went into service just weeks before the start of World War I, was converted to an armed merchant cruiser in 1915, and was sunk by the German armed merchant cruiser SMS Greif in 1916.
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