Cameron class steamer

Cameron class steamer

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|1937|6 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|1941|6 (seaplane depot ship)
*HMS|Bonaventure|F139|6 (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.

References

*http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersD2.html
*http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/clanline5rev.html


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