SS Empire Conveyor

History
Name:	Farnworth (1917–24) Illinois (1926–34) Mount Pentelikon (1934–39) Gloria (1939) Empire Conveyor (1939–40)
Owner:	R S Dalgleish Ltd (1917–24) Harlem Steamship Co Ltd (1924–26) CGT (1926–34) Kulukundis Shipping Co SA (1934–39) Orion Schiffahrts GmbH (1939) Ministry of War Transport (1939–40)
Operator:	R S Dalgleish Ltd (1917–24) F Newson (1924) Brown, Jenkinson & Co Ltd (1924–26) CGT (1926–32) Rethymis & Kulukundis Ltd (1934–39) E Behnke (1939) H Hogarth & Sons Ltd (1939–40)
Port of registry:	Newcastle upon Tyne (1917–23) Newcastle upon Tyne (1923–26) Le Havre (1926–34) Piraeus (1934–39) Rostock (1939) London (1939–40)
Builder:	Richardson, Duck & Co
Yard number:	651
Launched:	1917
Completed:	June 1917
Out of service:	20 June 1940
Identification:	code letters OTRW (1926–34) call sign SVAV (1934–39) call sign DHBB (1939) call sign GLTN (1939–40) UK official number 140672 (1917–26, 1939–40)
Fate:	Torpedoed and sunk
Status:	wreck
General characteristics
Class and type:	Cargo ship
Tonnage:	5,911 GRT; tonnage under deck 4,589; 3,682 NRT
Length:	400.3 ft (122.0 m)
Beam:	51.6 ft (15.7 m)
Draught:	26 feet (7.9 m)
Depth:	32.9 ft (10.0 m)
Installed power:	440 NHP
Propulsion:	3-cylinder Triple expansion steam engine; screw
Speed:	10 knots (19 km/h)
Crew:	41 (Empire Conveyor)
Notes:	Laid up 1932–34

Empire Conveyor was a 5,911 GRT shelter deck cargo ship that was built in 1917 as Farnworth by Richardson, Duck and Company,Thornaby-on-Tees, England. After a sale in 1924 she was renamed Illinois. In 1926, she was sold to France, and in 1934 to Greece and was renamed Mount Pentelikon. In 1939, she was sold to Germany and was renamed Gloria.

At the outbreak of the Second World War she was in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She tried to return to Germany but was captured by the Royal Navy, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Conveyor. She served until 22 June 1940 when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-122 off Barra Head.

The ship was 400 feet 3 inches (122.00 m) long, with a beam of 51 feet 6 inches (15.70 m). She had a depth of 32 feet 9 inches (9.98 m) and a draught of 25 feet 11 ¹⁄₂ inches (7.912 m). She was assessed at 5,711 GRT, 3,589 NRT.

The ship had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 192 feet (59 m) heating her three single-ended 180 lb_f/in² boilers, which had a combined heating surface of 7,171 square feet (666 m²). The boilers fed a 440 NHP triple expansion steam engine that was built by Blair & Co Ltd of . It had cylinders of 27 inches (69 cm), 44 ¹⁄₂ inches (113 cm) and 74 inches (190 cm) diameter, by 48 inches (120 cm) stroke and could propel the ship at 10 knots (19 km/h).

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