User:Wikipedian7878/HMHSTurner
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The HMHS Turner docked in Queenstown The HMHS Turner Docked in Queenstown
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History | |
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Name | Turner |
Owner | White Star Line |
Port of registry | Southampton, England |
Route | Southampton to France |
Ordered | 1914 |
Builder | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Dundee |
Laid down | 1914 |
Launched | 1915 |
Christened | Originally named RMS Medic Palace |
Completed | 1915 |
Maiden voyage | February 15 1915 |
In service | 1915 |
Out of service | 1916 |
Fate | Torpedoed 3 times sank in the Aegean sea in June 3 1916. |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 29,561 tons gross |
Length | 587.6 ft (179.1 m) |
Beam | 69.4 ft (21.2 m) |
Propulsion | list error: <br /> list (help) 3 triple bladed propellers 3 expansion engines 850 nhp |
Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Notes | Sunk in 8 minutes. Along with 300 lives. |
The HMHS Turner was a hospital ship that served during World War I. She was torpedoed 3 times terribly she sunk in 8 minutes. She had 30 lifeboats but only managed to launch 10 since it sank so quickly there was an estimated amount of 568 passengers on board More them 300 died including a reason that over hundreds of portholes were left open against portholes that fastly speeded up the flooding. 278 survived roughly.