SS Clan Fraser (1938)
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Name | Clan Fraser |
Owner | Clan Line Steamers Ltd, London[1] |
Operator | Cayzer, Irvine & Co Ltd, London[1] |
Port of registry | Glasgow[1] |
Builder | Greenock Dockyard Co., Greenock[1] |
Yard number | 435[2] |
Launched | 20 December 1938[2] |
Completed | February 1939[1] |
Identification |
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Fate | bombed and sunk, 6 April 1941[2] |
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Class and type | Cameron-class steamship |
Tonnage | 7,529 GRT, 3,524 NRT[1] |
Length | 463.7 feet (141.3 m)[1] registered length |
Beam | 63.0 feet (19.2 m)[1] |
Draught | 28 feet 4+1⁄4 inches (8.64 m)[1] |
Depth | 29.9 feet (9.1 m)[1] |
Installed power | 1,370 NHP[1] |
Propulsion | 2 × steam triple expansion engines; 2 × low pressure exhaust turbines; twin screw[1] |
Speed | 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h)[2] |
SS Clan Fraser was a British cargo steamship. She served in the Second World War and was bombed and sunk in Greece in 1941.
This was the third of four Clan Line ships called Clan Fraser. The first was a steamship built in 1878, sold in 1899 and wrecked in 1902.[3] The second was a steamship built in 1900, sold in 1919 and lost in 1920.[4] The fourth was a motor ship built in 1961, sold in 1965, burnt out in 1979 and scrapped in 1980.[5]
Building
Clan Fraser was one of the Clan Line's Cameron-class steamships, built by the Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd, Greenock[1] and launched on 20 December 1938[2] and completed in February 1939.[1] She was registered in Glasgow.[1]
Fraser had 20 corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 402 square feet (37 m2). They heated five single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 17,780 square feet (1,652 m2). These supplied steam at 220
War service
Clan Fraser sailed independently for the first year of the Second World War. She worked between the Indian sub-continent, southern Africa, Australia, Britain and the Mediterranean without being part of a
Clan Fraser was one of the three fast merchant ships that took part in
Clan Fraser and Clan Forbes returned to Gibraltar in Convoy
On 6 April 1941 German forces
References
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- ^ "Clan Fraser (1900)". Wear Built Ships. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- ^ "Clan Fraser (1961)". Tyne Built Ships. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- ^ a b Hague, Arnold. "Ship Movements". Port Arrivals / Departures. Don Kindell, ConvoyWeb. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
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- ^ Hague, Arnold. "Convoy OA.222". OA Convoy Series. Don Kindell, ConvoyWeb. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
- ^ Hague, Arnold. "Convoy MG.1". Shorter Convoy Series. Don Kindell, ConvoyWeb. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
- ^ Hague, Arnold. "Convoy BN.21". BN Convoy Series. Don Kindell, ConvoyWeb. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
- ^ Hague, Arnold. "Convoy ANF.24". Shorter Convoy Series. Don Kindell, ConvoyWeb. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
- ^ a b c d Tomkinson, John L. "The Occupation (1941–1944)". Athens under the Nazis. Retrieved 10 November 2013.