HMS Engadine (1941)

Aerial view in December 1942
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Engadine
Builder	Greenock Dockyard Company, Greenock, Scotland
Laid down	16 March 1940
Launched	26 May 1941
Completed	17 November 1941
Fate	Sold 1946
United Kingdom
Name	Clan Buchanan
Owner	Clan Line
Acquired	1946
Fate	Scrapped November 1962
General characteristics
Class and type	Cameron-class steamship
Tonnage	9,909 GRT
Length	464 ft (141 m)
Beam	63 ft (19 m)
Draught	30 ft (9.1 m)
Propulsion	2 × 3-cylinder triple-expansion engines 2 × low-pressure exhaust steam turbines; twin screw
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h)
Complement	78

HMS Engadine was a 9,909 GRT cargo ship laid down at the Greenock Dockyard Company, Greenock, Scotland on 16 March 1940, launched on 26 May 1941 and completed on 17 November 1941.

She was ordered by Clan Line, and was to be named Clan Buchanan (the previous Clan Buchanan having been sunk by the German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin on 28 April 1941). However the Admiralty requisitioned her for the Royal Navy before completion and renamed after the first HMS Engadine for use as a seaplane depot ship.^[1]

She was loaned to the United States Navy from November 1942 until July 1943. After the war, she was restored to Clan Line in 1946 and given her originally-intended name. The ship was scrapped at Cartagena, Spain in November 1962.

References[]

This article about a specific naval ship or boat of the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t