HMS Angora was a British passenger ship which was requisitioned from the Mercantile Marine by the Royal Navy for service as a transport and auxiliary minelayer during World War I. Angora had a tonnage of 4,288 tons and a maximum speed of 17 knots.

[1] Angora was launched at Dumbarton by William Denny & Brothers on 1 December 1910 for the British India Steam Navigation Company.

[2][3] In September 1914, Angora was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a transport ship and carried 1,200 Gurkha soldiers from Mumbai to Marseille in overcrowded conditions.

The three minelayers, escorted by six destroyers and covered by various distant naval forces, successfully laid 1,450 mines off the Amrun bank.

They were not hampered by German ships and finished the minefield overnight, returning to Britain by morning.