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HMS River Clyde

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River Clyde at V Beach on the Gallipoli peninsula, showing disembarkation ports cut in her starboard side.
History
United Kingdom
Name: SS River Clyde
Namesake: River Clyde, Scotland
Owner: River Clyde Steam Ship Co Ltd (Ormond, Cook & Co), Glasgow
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Builder: Russell & Co, Port Glasgow
Yard number: 537
Launched: 23 February 1905
Completed: March 1905
Out of service: 1915
Fate: Sold
United Kingdom
Name: SS River Clyde
Owner: Sefton Steam Ship Co Ltd (H.E Moss & Co)
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Acquired: 1915
Out of service: 1915
Fate: Requisitioned by British Admiralty
United Kingdom
Name: River Clyde
Acquired: 1915
Out of service: 1921
Fate: Sold
Spain
Name: SS Angela
Owner: A Pardo, Santander
Port of registry: Spain
Acquired: 1921
Out of service: 1928
Fate: Sold
Spain
Name:
  • SS Angela (until 1931)
  • SS Maruja y Aurora (1931 onwards)
Owner:
  • Gumersindo Junquera Blanco, Gijon (1929-48)
  • Gumersindo Junquera S.A, Gijon (1948-1966)
Port of registry: Spain
Acquired: 7 December 1928
Out of service: 27 August 1937
Identification:

signal code HCPJ (as Maruja y Aurora)

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Fate: Seized by Spanish Nationalists, assigned to Spanish National Navy
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Name: Maruja y Aurora
Acquired: 27 August 1937
Out of service: 1939
Fate: Returned to former owners
Spain
Name: SS Maruja y Aurora
Owner:
  • Gumersindo Junquera Blanco, Gijon (1929-48)
  • Gumersindo Junquera S.A, Gijon (1948-1966)
Port of registry: Spain
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
Tonnage:
  • 3,913 GRT
  • tonnage under deck 3,658
  • 2,526 NRT
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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