SS Clan Forbes (1938)

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Clan Forbes
History
United Kingdom
NameClan Forbes
NamesakeClan Forbes
OwnerClan Line Steamers Ltd, London[1]
OperatorCayzer, Irvine & Co Ltd, London[1]
Port of registryGlasgow[1]
BuilderGreenock Dockyard Co, Scotland[1]
Yard number434[2]
Launched8 September 1938[2]
CompletedDecember 1938[1]
Identification
FateScrapped 1959[2]
General characteristics
Class and typeCameron-class steamship
Tonnage7,529 GRT, 3,524 NRT[1]
Length463.7 feet (141.3 m)
p/p
Beam63.0 feet (19.2 m)[1]
Draught29 feet 1+1⁄4 inches (8.87 m)[1]
Depth29.9 feet (9.1 m)[1]
Installed power1,370 NHP[1]
Propulsiontwo 3-cylinder triple-expansion engines; two low-pressure exhaust steam turbines; twin screw[1]
Speed17.5 knots (32.4 km/h)
Sensors and
processing systems
Armament
DEMS
Notessister ships: Clan Buchanan, Clan Cameron, Clan Campbell, Clan Chattan, Clan Cumming, Clan Ferguson, Clan Fraser, Clan Lamont, Clan Menzies, HMS Engadine

The SS Clan Forbes was a British cargo steamship. She was built for Clan Line Steamers Ltd as one of its Cameron-class steamships. She was launched at Greenock in 1938, served in the Second World War and was scrapped in Hong Kong 1959.[2]

This was the third of four Clan Line ships called Clan Forbes. The first was a steamship built in 1882 and sold to Furness, Withy & Co in 1903.[3] The second was a steamship built in 1903 and sunk by a u-boat in 1918.[4] The fourth was a motor ship built in 1961, sold in 1968 and scrapped in 1985.[5]

Building

Clan Forbes was launched on 8 September 1938[2] and completed that December.[1] She was one of a sub-class of 11 Cameron-class ships of identical dimensions, built in 1937–41 by the Greenock Dockyard Company on the River Clyde at Greenock in Renfrewshire: Clan Buchanan, Clan Cameron, Clan Campbell, Clan Chattan, Clan Cumming, Clan Ferguson, Clan Fraser, Clan Forbes, Clan Lamont, Clan Menzies and HMS Engadine.

Clan Forbes had 20 corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 402 square feet (37 m2) heating five single-ended forced draught boilers with a combined heating surface of 17,780 square feet (1,652 m2) that supplied

double reduction gearing and Föttinger hydraulic couplings to twin propeller shafts. J G Kincaid and Company of Greenock built the four engines, whose combined power was rated at 1,370 NHP.[1]

War service

On 16 August 1940 Clan Forbes was damaged by bombs in a

submarine depot ship HMS Maidstone, having been fitted with a dummy funnel.[6]

Post-war

Surviving the war, she continued in Clan Line service until 1959. She was then sold for scrap, and arrived at Hong Kong on 6 August 1959 to be broken up.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "Steamers and Motorships". Lloyd's Register (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1941. Retrieved 20 December 2013 – via Southampton City Council.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Clan Forbes (1938)". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Clan Forbes (1882)". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Clan Forbes". Wear Built Ships. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  5. ^ "Clan Forbes (1961)". Tyne Built Ships. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  6. ^ Bax, John; Robins, Terry. "Part Six". Clan Line. Merchant Navy Officers. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
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