HMS Hector was a UK steam turbine passenger and refrigerated cargo liner launched in 1924. She was the fourth of six civilian ships to bear the name.[1]
In the Second World War Hector was converted into an armed merchant cruiser. She was the eleventh HMS Hector in the history of the Royal Navy.
A Japanese air raid sank her in Ceylon in 1942. In 1946 she was raised and scrapped.
Building
Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company built Hector in Greenock, Scotland.[2] Isobel Cripps launched her on 18 June 1924 and she was completed on 16 September.[3]
Hector was the third of a set of four sister ships built for