RMS Carthage
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{{Use British English|date=September 2017}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image =RMS-SS Carthage.jpg |Ship caption =Carthage }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header = |Ship name =*RMS Carthage
|Ship owner = P&O 1931–61 |Ship operator= |Ship registry = {{flagicon|United Kingdom|civil}} London |Ship route = London, Bombay, China |Ship ordered = |Ship builder =*Alexander Stephen and Sons,
|Ship original cost = |Ship yard number = 535 |Ship way number = |Ship laid down = |Ship launched = 18 August 1931 |Ship completed = |Ship christened = |Ship trials = |Ship acquired = |Ship maiden voyage = 8 January 1932 |Ship in service = |Ship out of service = |Ship fate = Demolished 15 June 1961 by Miyachi Salvage Co Ltd, at Sakai, Japan. |Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header = |Header caption = |Ship class = |Ship tonnage = {{GRT|14304}} |Ship displacement = |Ship length = {{convert|552|ft|6|in}} |Ship beam = {{convert|71|ft|5|in}} |Ship height = |Ship draught = |Ship draft = |Ship depth = |Ship decks = |Ship ice class = |Ship sail plan = |Ship power = 6 × steam turbines |Ship propulsion = twin screws |Ship speed = {{convert|18|kn}} |Ship capacity =*177 First Class
|Ship crew = |Ship notes = Originally to have been named Canton }} |
RMS later SS Carthage was a Royal Mail Ship and ocean liner of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Known as one of the "Far East Sisters", she was launched in 1931 to serve the company's India and Far East Mail Service, along with her sister ship, {{RMS|Corfu}}. Both ships were built by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd in Glasgow, Scotland and served from 1931 until 1961 when they were scrapped.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poships.co.uk/thefareastpair.html|title=The Far East Pair|website=poships.co.uk|access-date=7 May 2024|archive-date=10 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310123818/http://www.poships.co.uk/thefareastpair.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=Carthage |url=https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?official_number=&imo=&builder=&builder_eng=&year_built=&launch_after=&launch_before=&role=&propulsion=&category=&owner=&port=&flag=&disposal=&lost=&ref=17163&vessel=CARTHAGE |website=Clydeships.co.uk |accessdate=17 September 2019}}
War service
In January 1940 Carthage was converted to an armed merchant cruiser, flag number F99, fitted with eight six-inch guns in single mountings and two three-inch anti-aircraft guns. In 1943 she was disarmed and re-commissioned as a troopship.{{cite book |last1=Lenton |first1=H T |last2=Colledge |first2=J J |title=Warships of World War 2 |date=1973 |publisher=Ian Allan |location=Shepperton |isbn=0-7110-0403-X |page=304}}
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