SS Huntingdon (1920)
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| Port of registry | London |
| Route | Britain – Australia / New Zealand |
| Builder | Bremer Vulkan, Bremen-Vegesack |
| Yard number | 588 |
| Completed | 1920 |
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| Fate | Sunk by torpedo, 24 February 1941 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 520.7 ft (158.7 m) |
| Beam | 64.2 ft (19.6 m) |
| Draught | 31 ft 10 in (9.70 m) |
| Depth | 38.1 ft (11.6 m) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Capacity | 409,583 cu ft (11,598 m3) refrigerated cargo |
| Crew | 67 |
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SS Huntingdon was a refrigerated steam cargo liner that was built in Germany in 1920 as Münsterland. The United Kingdom took her as war reparations and sold her to the Federal Steam Navigation Company, who renamed her Huntingdon. She operated between Britain and Australasia until 1941, when an Italian submarine sank her in the Atlantic Ocean.
This was the first of two ships in the Federal Steam fleet to be called Huntingdon. The second was a motor ship that was built in Scotland in 1948, transferred to P&O in 1973 and scrapped in 1975.