HMS Hector was a UK steam turbine passenger and refrigerated cargo liner launched in 1924.

Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company built Hector in Greenock, Scotland.

She had steam turbines driving twin screws via single-reduction gearing,[2] which gave her a service speed of 15 knots (28 km/h).

[4] On 27 August 1939, a few days before the outbreak of the Second World War, the Admiralty requisitioned Hector and had her converted into an armed merchant cruiser.

[8] On 5 April 1942 Japanese carrier-based aircraft attacked the port in the Easter Sunday Raid.

[12] The cruisers HMS Cornwall and Dorsetshire were sunk at sea later that day.

[13] The Admiralty returned the wreck of Hector to the Ocean Steamship Company on 20 April 1942, but because of the war she was not refloated until 1946.