RMS Arlanza

RMS Arlanza was a 14,622 gross register ton ocean liner of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, built with her engines by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the scheduled route between England and South America, launched on 23 November 1911 and completed on 8 June 1912. She was the first of the company A-series ships to have three screws and a low-pressure turbine, and she had berths for 400 first class, 230 second class and 760 third class passengers and refrigerated space for frozen meat. On 16 August 1914 the German auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse stopped her off the coast of Brazil with more than 1,000 people aboard and then let her proceed. She served as a Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser from 1915 until 1920, returned to civilian liner service in 1920 and was scrapped in 1938.