HMS River Clyde
River Clyde at V Beach on the Gallipoli peninsula, showing disembarkation ports cut in her starboard side.
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | SS River Clyde |
| Namesake: | River Clyde, Scotland |
| Owner: | River Clyde Steam Ship Co Ltd (Ormond, Cook & Co), Glasgow |
| Port of registry: |  |
| Builder: | Russell & Co, Port Glasgow |
| Yard number: | 537 |
| Launched: | 23 February 1905 |
| Completed: | March 1905 |
| Out of service: | 1915 |
| Fate: | Sold |
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United Kingdom
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| Name: | SS River Clyde |
| Owner: | Sefton Steam Ship Co Ltd (H.E Moss & Co) |
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| Acquired: | 1915 |
| Out of service: | 1915 |
| Fate: | Requisitioned by British Admiralty |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | River Clyde |
| Acquired: | 1915 |
| Out of service: | 1921 |
| Fate: | Sold |
 Spain
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| Name: | SS Angela |
| Owner: | A Pardo, Santander |
| Port of registry: |  |
| Acquired: | 1921 |
| Out of service: | 1928 |
| Fate: | Sold |
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Spain
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| Acquired: | 7 December 1928 |
| Out of service: | 27 August 1937 |
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signal code HCPJ (as Maruja y Aurora)    
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| Fate: | Seized by Spanish Nationalists, assigned to Spanish National Navy |
 Nationalist Spain
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| Name: | Maruja y Aurora |
| Acquired: | 27 August 1937 |
| Out of service: | 1939 |
| Fate: | Returned to former owners |
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Spain
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| Name: | SS Maruja y Aurora |
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| Acquired: | 1939 |
| Out of service: | 1965 |
| Identification: |
signal code HCPJ (as Maruja y Aurora)
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| Fate: | Sold to Desguaces y Salvamentos S.A.. Aviles for scrap, scrapping commenced 15 March 1966 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | collier |
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| Length: | 344.8 ft (105.1 m) |
| Beam: | 49.8 ft (15.2 m) |
| Draught: | 17.9 ft (5.5 m) |
| Installed power: | 374 NHP |
| Propulsion: | Kincaid & Co 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine; single screw |
signal code HCPJ (as Maruja y Aurora)
signal code HCPJ (as Maruja y Aurora)
SS River Clyde was a 3,913 GRT British collier built by Russell & Co of Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde and completed in March 1905. In the First World War the Admiralty requisitioned her for the Royal Navy and in 1915 she took part in the Gallipoli landings. After the war she was repaired and sold to Spanish owners, with whom she spent a long civilian career trading in the Mediterranean before being scrapped in 1966.
River Clyde had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 169 square feet (16 m2) that heated three 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 6,150 square feet (571 m2) to raise steam for her three-cylinder triple expansion engine. The engine was built by J.G. Kincaid & Co of Greenock and was rated at 374 NHP.
Early in 1915 River Clyde was adapted to be a landing ship for the joint French and British invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula.
Openings were cut in her steel hull as sally ports from which troops would emerge onto gangways and then to a bridge of smaller boats from the ship to the beach. Boiler plate and sandbags were mounted on her bow, and behind them a battery of 11 machine guns was installed. The machine gun battery was manned by Royal Naval Air Service men commanded by Josiah Wedgwood. Work began on painting River Clyde's hull sandy yellow as camouflage, but this was incomplete by the time of the landing.
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