Aragon
Ship Number
367
Vessel Type
Passenger Ship
Built
Belfast
Yard
South Yard
Slip Number
7
Launch Date
February 23, 1905
Delivered
June 22, 1905
Owner
Royal Mail Steam Packet Co
Weight
9441 grt
BP Length
512-4 feet
Breadth
60 feet
No. of Screws
Twin
Speed (approx)
Propulsion
quadruple expansion constructed in Belfast
Official No.
120707
Registered
Belfast
Fate
Sank
Aragon

HMT Aragon, originally RMS Aragon, was a 9,588 GRT transatlantic Royal Mail Ship that served as a troop ship in the First World War. She was the first of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's fleet of "A-liners" that worked regular routes between Southampton and South American ports including Buenos Aires.
 
In 1913 Aragon became Britain's first Defensively-Armed Merchant Ship ("DAMS") of modern times. In the First World War she served as a troop ship, taking part in the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. In 1917 a German submarine UC-34 sank her in the Mediterranean, killing 610 of the personnel aboard.