RMS Ophir

	Ophir in dry dock in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1901
History
United Kingdom
Name	Ophir
Namesake	Ophir
Owner	Orient Steam Navigation Company
Operator	Royal Navy (1901, 1915–19)
Port of registry	Glasgow
Route	London – Suez Canal – Colombo – Sydney
Builder	Robert Napier & Sons, Govan
Yard number	421
Launched	11 April 1891
Completed	October 1891
Identification	UK official number 98673; code letters MJGD; ; 1915: pennant number M 92; 1918: pennant number MI 82; by 1918: call sign GYB;
Commissioned	as Royal Yacht, February 1901
Decommissioned	as Royal Yacht, 6 November 1901
Recommissioned	as AMC, 26 January 1915
Decommissioned	as AMC, 29 July 1919
Fate	Scrapped in 1922
General characteristics
Type	ocean liner
Tonnage	6,910 GRT, 3,323 NRT
Length	465.0 ft (141.7 m)
Beam	53.4 ft (16.3 m)
Draught	24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Depth	34.1 ft (10.4 m)
Decks	4
Installed power	1,398 NHP, 9,500 ihp
Propulsion	2 × screws; 2 × triple-expansion engines;
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h)
Capacity	passengers: 892; refrigerated cargo: 52,400 cubic feet (1,480 m3);
Armament	1915: 6 × 6-inch (150 mm) guns

Ophir was an Orient Steam Navigation Company (Orient Line) steam ocean liner that was built in 1891 and scrapped in 1922. Her regular route was between London and Sydney via the Suez Canal, Colombo and Melbourne.

In 1901 she was the royal yacht HMS Ophir, taking the then Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York on a tour of the British Empire. From 1915 to 1919 she again served in the Royal Navy, this time as an armed merchant cruiser. After the First World War she was laid up, and in 1922 she was scrapped.

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