ASTURIAS

Asturias 1926-1957.

ON: 148146
ID: 1148146
Year: 1926
Name: ASTURIAS
Type: Passenger/cargo (ref)
Flag: GBR
Launch Date: 7.7.25
Date of completion: 6.2.26
Owner: Royal Mail SP Co.
Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast.
Yard No: 507
Link: 1600
Starke: V1925 #32
GRT: 22,048
LPP: 192.2
Beam: 23.9
2D-17.5 knots.

1934 lengthened to 198.2 m. 22,048 grt. 2ST-18 knots.

1957 BU Faslane 14.9.57

Asturias (2) was built in 1925, her sistership was Alcantara. She served as an Armed Merchant Cruiser and
a troopship in the war, and became a government-owned emigrant ship in 1945. Asturias (2) was scrapped in 1957.

Phoyo Credits: The late Allan Green collection Vic Australia