Category: HMS Alcantara (1913)
Built as an ocean liner for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and originally named RMS Alcantara she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and converted to an armed merchant cruiser in 1915, being named HMS Alcantara.
She was assigned to the 10th Cruiser Squadron which joined the Northern Patrol that was part of the First World War Allied naval blockade of the Central Powers. The Squadron patrolled about 520,000 sqkm of the North Sea, Norwegian Sea and Arctic Ocean to prevent German access to or from the North Atlantic.
In January 1916 Alcantara was attacked by the German merchant raider Greif disguised as the Norwegian merchant ship Rena out of Tønsberg, Norway. As a result of this action Alcantara was sunk with the loss of 68 sailors.
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