SS Empire Morn
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| Builder: | Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Yard number: | 769 |
| Launched: | 1 July 1941 |
| Completed: | September 1941 |
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| Fate: | Scrapped in 1973 |
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| Class and type: | CAM ship |
| Tonnage: | 7,092 GRT |
| Length: | 433 ft (131.98 m) |
| Beam: | 56 ft 3 in (17.15 m) |
| Draught: | 34 ft 4 in (10.46 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 x triple expansion steam engine |
| Speed: | 10 knots (19 km/h) |
SS Empire Morn was a 7,092-ton CAM ship that was built in 1941. She saw service on a number of trade routes during the Second World War, making several crossings of the North Atlantic as well as voyages to Russia and Africa. She was badly damaged after hitting a mine in 1943, and spent the rest of the war laid up as a hulk. She was subsequently sold and repaired, returning to service for several companies after the war, under the names San Antonio and Rio Pas before being sold for scrapping in 1973.
Empire Morn is known for the death of the second youngest person in the British services to die in the war, 14-year-old galley boy Raymond Steed. She is also the only CAM ship whose fighter pilot died in action after his aircraft was launched from the ship.
Empire Morn was built by Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness as yard number 769. She was launched on 1 July 1941 and completed in September 1941.Empire Morn was built for the Ministry of War Transport and managed by E.J. Sutton & Co.
She served in a number of convoys during the war, occasionally sailing between British ports, such as Methil and Southend, Milford Haven and Liverpool, as well as the Arctic convoy assembly point at Loch Ewe. She sailed several times to North America, as part of convoys ON 17, ON 109 and ON 165, and back again as part of convoys SC 49, SC 50, SC 54 and SC 122. In January 1942 she sailed to Gibraltar as part of convoy OG 78, returning to Liverpool in February with convoy HG 79.Empire Morn was then assigned to the Arctic convoys, delivering supplies to the Soviet Union. She sailed in April 1942 as part of convoy PQ 15 to Murmansk, making the return journey in late April to May with convoy QP 12.
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