RMS Viceroy of India

RMS *Viceroy of India*
History
As HMS Viceroy of India on the Clyde in World War II
United Kingdom
Name:	RMS Viceroy of India
Namesake:	Viceroy & Governor-General of India
Owner:	P&O Steam Navigation Co
Operator:	P&O Steam Navigation Co
Port of registry:	Glasgow
Route:	Tilbury — Bombay
Builder:	Alexander Stephen and Sons, Glasgow
Cost:	£1,090,987
Yard number:	519
Laid down:	April 1927
Launched:	15 September 1928
Christened:	By Dorothy, Countess of Halifax, wife of the 1st Earl of Halifax, Viceroy of India
Completed:	March 1929
Maiden voyage:	7 March 1929
In service:	7 March 1929
Out of service:	11 November 1942
Homeport:	Tilbury
Identification:	UK official number 160238 code letters LCTV (until 1933) call sign GLVX (from 1934)
Fate:	sunk 11 November 1942 by U-407
General characteristics
Class and type:	ocean liner
Tonnage:	19,648 GRT 14,069 tonnage under deck 10,069 NRT 9,180 LT DWT
Length:	586.1 ft (178.6 m) moulded 612.3 ft (186.6 m) o/a
Beam:	76.2 ft (23.2 m)
Draught:	28 ft 2.75 in (8.60 m)
Depth:	41.5 ft (12.6 m)
Decks:	5
Installed power:	3,565 NHP 17,000 shp (13,000 kW)
Propulsion:	turbo-electric transmission; twin screw
Speed:	19 knots (35 km/h) or 20 knots (37 km/h)
Capacity:	Passengers: 415 1st class 258 2nd class Cargo: 217,752 cu ft (6,166 m³)
Crew:	14 officers 19 petty officers 59 seamen 18 engineers 53 firemen 248 pursers and stewards 1 surgeon and 1 assistant (413 total)
Sensors and processing systems:	direction finding equipment

RMS Viceroy of India was an ocean liner of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). She was a British Royal Mail Ship on the Tilbury–Bombay route and was named after the Viceroy of India. In World War II she was converted to and used as a troopship. She was sunk in the Mediterranean in November 1942 by German submarine U-407.

P&O ordered the ship from Alexander Stephen and Sons of Glasgow in 1927. She was originally to be called Taj Mahal, after the 17th-century mausoleum of Mumtaz Mahal in Agra. She was laid down in April 1927, launched in September 1928 and completed in March 1929. She cost £1,090,987

She had six water-tube boilers with a combined heating surface of 32,500 square feet (3,019 m²) that supplied steam at 400 lb_f/in² to two turbo generators. These supplied current to electric motors with a combined rating of 3,565 NHP that drove twin screw propellers.British Thomson-Houston (BT-H) of Rugby, Warwickshire built the turbo-generators and motors.

Each turbo-generator ran at 2,690–3,110 RPM, producing three-phase current at 2,720 volts and rated at 900 kW. Each propeller shaft was driven by two three-phase 3,150 volt electric motors running at 109 RPM and giving 8,500 shp (6,300 kW) per shaft. At reduced power of up to 11,600 shp (8,700 kW) only one turbo-generator was needed to supply current to both motors, thus maximising fuel economy. Variation of propeller speed in either direction was achieved by changing the turbine speed.

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