HMS Glengyle

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Glengyle
Builder	Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee
Launched	18 July 1939
Commissioned	10 September 1940
Out of service	Returned to Glen Line 17 July 1946
Renamed	Deucalion in October 1970
Fate	Scrapped by June 1971
General characteristics
Tonnage	9,919 GRT
Length	507 ft 6 in (154.69 m)
Beam	66 ft 4 in (20.22 m)
Draught	30 ft 6 in (9.30 m)
Installed power	12,000 bhp
Propulsion	Diesel engines; 2 shafts;
Speed	18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Capacity	34 officers 663 other ranks
Complement	523
Armament	3 × twin QF 4 inch Mark XVI gun; 2 × quad QF 2 pounder naval gun (pom-pom); 12 × 20mm Mark I IA;

HMS Glengyle was a 9,919

infantry landing ship (large) of the Royal Navy

Design and conversion

Glengyle was built by

Mediterranean, where she became part of Layforce

Glengyle was part of the

She returned to the Mediterranean in November, where she was used to transport US troops for the

Glengyle was transferred to the Australian Naval Board in October, landing a garrison at Singapore, as well as repatriating Australian troops from South-East Asia. She transported a garrison to Kure in January 1946, before returning home with liberated British prisoners of war from Manila. Glengyle was returned to the Glen Line on 17 July, and after being refitted for a return to merchant service at Vickers-Armstrongs, re-entered service on 3 March 1948. She was transferred to Blue Funnel Line in October 1970 and was renamed Deucalion, but by June 1971 she had been broken up at Kaohsiung.