Namesake Lanfranc of Canterbury Maiden voyage 18 February 1907 Launched 18 October 1906 Draft 8.29 m | Owner Booth Steamship Co Tonnage 6,287 GRT Length 128 m Builder Dundee | |
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Name Lanfranc (1906–15)
Lanfranc (1915–17) Fate Torpedoed and sunk, 17 April 1917 | ||
HMHS Lanfranc was an ocean liner requisitioned as a hospital ship in the First World War. On 17 April 1917 she was torpedoed by the German U-boat SM UB-40.
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HistoryEdit
Lanfranc was built by the Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company for the Booth Steamship Company, which ran passenger services between Liverpool and Manaus, 1,000 miles (1,600 km) up the Amazon River. With the outbreak of war she was requisitioned as a hospital ship.
SinkingEdit
On the evening of 17 April the Lanfranc, while transporting wounded from Le Havre to Southampton, was torpedoed without warning. 22 British, including 2 officers, and 18 German other ranks were lost.
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