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RMS Alcantara was a Royal Mail Lines ocean liner that was built in Belfast in 1926. She served in the Second World War first as an armed merchant cruiser and then a troop ship . She returned to civilian service in 1948 and was scrapped in 1958.
RMS Alcantara was an ocean liner which entered service just weeks before the start of World War I, was converted to an armed merchant cruiser in 1915, and was sunk in combat with the German armed merchant cruiser SMS Greif in the Action of 29 February 1916.
RMS Alcantara (1926) 1926 HMS Alcantara (1939–1943) Kaisho Maru (1958) Scrapped in 1958 R.M.S. Alcantara outside of Rio de Janeiro: MS Aleksandr Pushkin: 1964 Marco Polo (1991–2021) Scrapped in Alang, India in 2021. Work completed in 2022. MS Aleksandr Pushkin in the summer of 1970. Marco Polo in the port of Tallinn, circa August 2nd, 2012
Each had a name beginning with the letter "A", so collectively they were called the "A-liners" or the "A-series". The first was RMS Aragon in 1905, followed by sister ships Amazon, Araguaya and Avon in 1906, and Asturias in 1908. A few years later the final four "A-liners" were built: Arlanza in 1912, Andes and Alcantara in 1913 and Almanzora ...
HMS Alcantara can refer to either of two ocean liners which were used by the British Royal Navy (RN) in wartime, adopting the prefix "HMS" while in RN service: . RMS Alcantara (1913) - launched in 1913 and sunk in combat during World War I with SMS Greif in 1916.
Alcantara: Lost on 29 February 1916. Almanzora: In service 23 Aug. 15-20 Dec 19. 1 of over 60 commissioned AMC's employed on patrol and later convoy protection, 33 served with 10th Cruiser Squadron on Northern Patrol. Alsatian: Post war, Allan line was taken over by CP and SS Alsatian was named RMS Empress of France 4 April 1919. Ambrose
The action of 29 February 1916 was a naval engagement fought during the First World War between the United Kingdom and the German Empire. SMS Greif, a German commerce raider, broke out into the North Sea and Admiral Sir John Jellicoe dispatched Royal Navy warships to intercept the raider.
RMS Adriatic (1906) SS Akaroa (1914) RMS Alcantara (1926) SS Almeda Star; RMS Amazon (1906) HMS Ambrose (1903) RMS Andes (1939) SS Antenor (1924) MV Aorangi (1924) HMHS Asturias; RMS Asturias (1925) RMS Atrato (1888) SS Avila Star