HMS Lothian
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | MV City of Edinburgh |
| Owner | Ellerman's City Line |
| Route | USA - Australia - New Zealand route until 1939 |
| Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
| Yard number | 1032 |
| Launched | 14 April 1938 |
| Completed | August 1938 |
| In service | 1938-1939 |
| Fate | Requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport in 1939. |
| Name | MV City of Edinburgh |
| Owner | Ministry of War Transport |
| Operator | Ellerman's City Line |
| In service | 1939-43 |
| Fate | Recommissioned into Royal Navy as headquarters ship |
| Notes | Used as troop transport in November 1942 on convoy KMF4 for Operation Torch (the invasion of North Africa) |
| Name | HMS Lothian |
| Commissioned | September 1943 |
| Out of service | 1943-46 |
| Fate | Returned to owners |
| Notes | Renamed HMS Lothian in 1943 and converted into a Landing Ship Infantry (Headquarters) LSI (H) for the Royal Navy. |
| History | |
| Name | MV City of Edinburgh |
| Owner | Ellerman's City Line |
| In service | 1946-61 |
| Fate | Sold to Hong Kong Salvage and Towage Company in 1961 and renamed Castle Mount for her last voyage to Hong Kong for scrapping in July 1961. |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 8,036 GRT |
| Beam | 19 ft |
HMS Lothian, was a former cargo ship launched in 1938, as MV City of Edinburgh, which was requisitioned during the Second World War as a troop transport and later converted by the Royal Navy into a headquarters ship in the Pacific. The ship is notable for a mutiny that occurred onboard whilst docked at Balboa, Panama in September 1944.
The ship was returned to her original owners, Ellerman's City Line, in 1946 and scrapped in 1961.