History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Clan Chisholm |
Owner | Clan Line Steamers Ltd, London [1] |
Operator | Cayzer, Irvine & Co Ltd, London [1] |
Port of registry | Glasgow [1] |
Builder | Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd, Greenock [1] |
Yard number | 429 [2] |
Launched | 5 August 1937 [2] |
Completed | 1937 [1] |
Identification |
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Fate | Sunk by torpedo, 17 October 1939 [3] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Cameron-class steamship |
Tonnage | |
Length | 463.7 feet (141.3 m) p/p [1] |
Beam | 63.0 feet (19.2 m) [1] |
Depth | 29.9 feet (9.1 m) [1] |
Installed power | 1,043 NHP [1] |
Propulsion | 2 × steam triple expansion engines; low pressure exhaust steam turbines; twin screw [1] |
Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h) [4] |
Crew | 78 [3] |
Sensors and processing systems | direction finding equipment; echo sounding device; gyrocompass [1] |
SS Clan Chisholm was a British cargo steamship. She was torpedoed and sunk in the Second World War while carrying cargo from India to Scotland.
Clan Chisholm was one of the Clan Line's Cameron-class steamships, built by the Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd, Greenock [1] and launched on 5 August 1937. [2] She was registered in Glasgow. [1]
Chisholm had a pair of three-cylinder steam triple expansion engines and a pair of low pressure steam turbines, all built by J.G. Kincaid & Co of Greenock. [1] Each turbine was powered by exhaust steam from the low-pressure cylinder of one of the piston engines. [1] The combined power output of this plant was rated at 1,043 NHP. [1] She was propelled by twin screws, each driven by one triple-expansion engine and one turbine.
On 3 September 1939, the day that the UK declared war on Germany, Chisholm was crossing the Bay of Bengal from Chittagong in Bengal to Madras in India, where she arrived on 5 September. [5] On 9 September she sailed for Glasgow carrying 3,300 tons of tea, 1,900 tons of jute, 1,750 tons of pig iron and 2,600 tons of general cargo. [3] Her Master was Francis Stenson. [3]
Chisholm crossed the Indian Ocean, calling at Tuticorin on 13 September, Colombo in Ceylon overnight on the 14–15th, Aden on the 23rd and Suez on the 30th. [5] She passed through the Suez Canal to Port Said where she joined Convoy Blue 3, which sailed on 1 October and reached Gibraltar on the 11th. [5] There she joined Convoy HG 3 which sailed on 13 October and was to take her as far as Liverpool. [5]
On the evening of 17 October German submarine U-48, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Herbert Schultze, sighted Chisholm under way some 150 nautical miles (280 km) northwest of Cape Finisterre. [3] At 2032 hrs Schultze hit Chisholm with a torpedo that failed to explode. [3] At 2035 he hit her with a second torpedo, which detonated. [3] Chisholm sank in a few minutes and four crew members were killed. [3] Captain Stenson and 41 other survivors were rescued by the Swedish cargo ship MV Bardaland and landed at Kirkwall. [3] Another 17 were picked up by the Norwegian whaling ship Skudd, and the remaining 15 were rescued by the Union-Castle Line ship MV Warwick Castle. [3]
In 1944 the same shipbuilder, Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd, completed a replacement Clan Chisholm for Clan Line. [6] Compared with her predecessor, the new Chisholm had almost the same length and beam, a pair of Kincaid triple-expansion engines of the same dimensions and with the same arrangement of feeding exhaust steam to low-pressure turbines. [6] However, her depth was 38.1 feet (11.6 m), [6] which was 8.2 feet (2.5 m) greater than her predecessor. Her GRT was 9,581, [6] which was 2,325 tons bigger than her predecessor. She survived the war but later suffered a fire and in August 1962 was scrapped in Hong Kong. [7]
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