SS Clan Macwhirter (1918)
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| Port of registry: | Glasgow |
| Builder: | Lloyd Royal Belge (Great Britain) Ltd, Whiteinch, Glasgow |
| Launched: | 26 April 1918 |
| Completed: | July 1918 |
| Out of service: | 27 August 1942 |
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| Fate: | sunk by torpedo |
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| Class and type: | cargo steamship |
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| Length: | 424.4 feet (129.4 m) |
| Beam: | 55.8 feet (17.0 m) |
| Draught: | 26 feet 7 inches (8.10 m) |
| Depth: | 28.8 feet (8.8 m) |
| Installed power: | 549 NHP |
| Propulsion: | steam triple expansion engine |
| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Crew: | 77, plus (in wartime) 9 DEMS gunners |
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SS Clan Macwhirter was a British cargo steamship. She was built in 1918 as Ypresville in the First World War and sunk by enemy action in 1942 in the Second World War. In her 24-year career she also carried the names Halizones and Willcasino.
Lloyd Royal Belge (Great Britain) Ltd built the ship at Whiteinch, Glasgow, launching her on 26 April 1918 as Ypresville. She was completed that July.
She had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 186 square feet (17 m2) that heated three 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 8,151 square feet (757 m2). They supplied steam to one three-cylinder steam triple expansion engine rated at 549 NHP.
Ypresville was built for the UK Government's Shipping Controller, a wartime agency that contracted James Gardiner and Company of Liverpool to manage her. By the end of 1918 the Shipping Controller had sold the ship to the British and South American Steam Navigation Company, which renamed her Halizones and contracted RP Houston and Company of Liverpool to manage her. In 1920 the Convoy Steam Ship Company Ltd of Halifax, Nova Scotia bought the ship, renamed her Willcasino and contracted HD Kempt of Liverpool to manage her. In 1921 Convoy SS Co sold the ship back to British and South American, who returned her to RP Houston's management but kept her name asWillcasino. In 1924 Clan Line Steamers Ltd bought the ship, renamed her Clan Macwhirter and appointed Cayzer, Irvine and Company Limited (who were part of the same group) to manage her.
On 1 September 1939, the day that the UK and France declared war against Germany, Clan Macwhirter sailed unescorted from Majunga in Madagascar bound for Colombo in Ceylon. She continued to trade unescorted in the Indian Ocean and South Atlantic until 1 February 1940, when she reached Freetown in Sierra Leone with a cargo of wheat and maize from Rosario and Buenos Aires in Argentina. From Freetown she sailed on 5 February with Convoy SL 19F, reaching Liverpool on 20 February.
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