RMS Mooltan was an ocean liner and Royal Mail Ship of P and O, ordered from Harland and Wolff with her sister Maloja on 29 November 1918, given yard number 587, launched on 15 January 1923 and completed in September 1923. She was unusual in combining quadruple-expansion steam engines with turbo-electric transmission: when completed she had only her quadruple-expansion engines, but in 1929 turbo generators and electric propulsion motors were added alongside them, raising her total installed power to 2,878 nominal horsepower and her top speed to 17 knots. She served in the Second World War first as the armed merchant cruiser HMS Mooltan and then as a troop ship. She was retired from P and O service in 1953, sold in January 1954, and broken up at Faslane in Scotland.
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P&O ordered Mooltan and her sister RMS Maloja from Harland & Wolff on 29 November 1918.
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She was launched on 15 January 1923, completed on 22 September 1923
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She was retired from P&O service in 1953 and scrapped in 1954.
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Mooltan was unusual in combining both quadruple-expansion steam engines and turbo-electric transmission.
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P&O ordered Mooltan and her sister RMS Maloja from Harland & Wolff on 29 November 1918.
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RMS Mooltan was an ocean liner and Royal Mail Ship of P&O.
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