SS Clan Fraser
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | SS Clan Fraser |
| Owner: | Clan Line Steamers Ltd, London |
| Operator: | Cayzer, Irvine & Co Ltd, London |
| Port of registry: | Glasgow |
| Builder: | Greenock Dockyard Co., Greenock |
| Yard number: | 435 |
| Launched: | 20 December 1938 |
| Completed: | February 1939 |
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| Fate: | bombed and sunk, 6 April 1941 |
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| Class and type: | Cameron-class steamship |
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| Length: | 463.7 feet (141.3 m)p/p |
| Beam: | 63.0 feet (19.2 m) |
| Draught: | 28 feet 4 1⁄4 inches (9 m) |
| Depth: | 29.9 feet (9.1 m) |
| Installed power: | 1,370 NHP |
| Propulsion: | 2 × steam triple expansion engines; 2 × low pressure exhaust turbines; twin screw |
| Speed: | 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h) |
The SS Clan Fraser was a British cargo steamship. She served in the Second World War and was bombed and sunk in Greece in 1941.
Clan Chisholm was one of the Clan Line's Cameron-class steamships, built by the Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd, Greenock and launched on 20 December 1938 and completed in February 1939. She was registered in Glasgow.
Chisholm had 20 corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 402 square feet (37 m2). They heated five single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 17,780 square feet (1,652 m2). These supplied steam at 220 lbf/in2 to a pair of three-cylinder steam triple expansion engines. Exhaust steam from each engine's low-pressure cylinder fed one of a pair of low pressure steam turbines. All the engines were built by J.G. Kincaid & Co of Greenock. The combined power output of this plant was rated at 1,043 NHP. She was propelled by twin screws, each driven by one triple-expansion engine and one turbine.
Clan Fraser sailed independently for the first year of the Second World War. She worked between the Indian sub-continent, southern Africa, Australia, Britain and the Mediterranean without being part of a convoy until 5 September 1940, when she sailed carrying general cargo from the Firth of Clyde to Methil with Convoy WN 13. At the end of the month she returned from Methil to the Clyde with Convoy OB 222.
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