HMS Forfar (F30) was a British ocean liner that was commissioned into the Royal Navy as an armed merchant cruiser in 1939 and sunk by enemy action in 1940. She was launched in Scotland in 1920 as a transatlantic liner for the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company as Montrose. She was one of three sister ships. The others were Montcalm, also launched in 1920, and Montclare, launched in 1921.
Montrose in Funchal, Madeira, in the early 1930s
Leaning against a depth charge thrower, the quarterdeck lookout on board HMS Viscount searches the sea for submarines, 1942 (IWM A13362)