Hawthorn Leslie and Company
The SS "Ranpura" was a British passenger and cargo carrying ocean liner built by R. &amp; W. Hawthorn Leslie and Company at Newcastle upon Tyne for the Peninsular &amp; Oriental Steam Navigation Company in 1924. She was the first of the P&amp;O 'R' class liners that had much of their interiors designed by Lord Inchcape's daughter Elsie Mackay. She was launched 13 September 1924 and sponsored by C.C. Straker, wife of the chairman of Hawthorn Leslie and Company.