Cameron class steamer
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 SS Clan Fraser | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Built: | 1935–1942 |
| Completed: | 14 |
| Lost: | 5 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 7,529–10,700 long tons (7,650–10,900 t) |
| Length: | 464–488 ft (141–149 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draft: | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × steam triple expansion and exhaust turbines |
| Speed: | 16–17.5 knots (18–20.1 mph; 30–32.4 km/h) |
| Complement: | 78 |
The Cameron-class steamers were a ship class of steamships of the Clan Line.
- Clan Macauley, launched 1936, bombed at Malta, scrapped 1963.
- Clan Chisholm, launched 1937, sailed in convoy from Gibraltar and torpedoed and sunk by U-48 in October 1939.
- Clan Buchanan, launched 1937, sunk in Indian Ocean by German raider Pinguin 1941.
- Clan Cumming, launched 1937, convoy duties to Malta and Athens, torpedoed off Piraeus harbour in January 1941 but reached port, sunk by mine in the Gulf of Athens April 1941.
- Clan Ferguson, launched 1938, torpedoed and sunk by aircraft on a Malta convoy August 1942.
- Clan Forbes, launched 1938, convoy duties to Malta and Athens disguised as HMS Maidstone with a dummy funnel.
- Clan Fraser, launched 1938, convoy duties to Malta and Athens. Bombed from the air in Piraeus harbour in April 1941 whilst carrying a cargo of ammunition, exploded and sunk.
- Clan Macdonald, launched 1939, war service as Convoy Commodore ship on Mediterranean convoy to Piraeus 1941, thence to Brisbane and back to United Kingdom, bombed in UK, scrapped 1967.
- Clan Lamont, launched 1939, served as a Landing Ship Infantry made 6 crossings carrying troops on D-Day, commissioned as HMS Lamont July 1944, service in Far East, re-entered Clan Line 1947, scrapped 1961.
Three were requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1942 while still under construction:
- HMS Athene (seaplane depot ship)
- HMS Engadine (seaplane depot ship)
- HMS Bonaventure (submarine depot ship for X-craft, survived the war, bought back by Clan Line in 1947 as Clan Davidson, scrapped 1961)
Two other ships are counted as part of this class:
- Ocean Courier, begun by Clan Line, completed at Portland, Maine for the Ministry of War Transport, damaged by E-boat torpedo in English Channel 1944, bought by Clan Line as Clan Macbeane 1948, scrapped 1960.
- Lanarkshire, war service, scrapped 1963.
