Empire Cadet class

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Empire Cadet class
The Empire Shetland
The Empire Shetland
Ship data
Ship type Coastal tanker
Shipping company MoWT
Construction period 1941 to 1945
Units built 23
Cruising areas Coastal drive
Ship dimensions and crew
length
61.57 m ( Lüa )
width 9.45 m
measurement approx. 800 GRT
Machine system
machine 1 × triple expansion steam engine
Top
speed 		9.5 kn (18 km / h)
propeller 1 × fixed propeller
Transport capacities
Load capacity 800 dw
Others
Classifications Lloyd's Register

The Empire Cadet class (also Empire Cadet type ) was a series of coastal tankers built in Great Britain during World War II . They belong to the group of Empire ships .

description

The Pass of Balmaha of the shipping company Bulk Oil Steamship Company , built in 1933 at the Blythswood Shipbuilding Company in Scotstoun , was the lead ship of the series and supplied the plans for the Empire Cadet draft. The ships were designed as pure coastal tankers in single-hull construction and a length of 61.57 meters. The ships had a forecastle , a deeply drawn-down main deck and a deckhouse arranged very aft above the engine room , which was followed by a short, deep poop with a transom . The tankers had a manifold positioned far forward with two cargo booms on the main mast. A steam engine served as the drive system . The construction series of 23 units was carried out by four shipyards and extended from 1941 to 1945. Building on this, three further units were built in Goole as prototypes of the TED and TES types, the bridge structures of which were amidships .

The ships

Empire Cadet class
Building name Shipyard / construction number IMO number delivery Later names and whereabouts
Empire Bairn Blythswood / - - 1941 1948 Chilka
Empire Lass Grangemouth / - - 1941 -
Empire Boy Goole / - - 1941 -
Empire Arthur Grangemouth / - - 1942 -
Empire Cadet Grangemouth / - - 1942 -
Empire Damsel Grangemouth / - - 1942 -
Empire Gawain Grangemouth / - - 1942 -
Empire Gypsy Inglis / - - 1942 -
Empire Maiden Inglis / - - 1942 -
Empire Harp Goole / - 5031212 1942 1948 Anis , 1954 Authenticity , 1966, Petrola 1 , scrapped in July 1984 at Eleusis Shipbreakers in Aspropyrgos
Empire Harbor Grangemouth / - - 1943 -
Empire settlers Grangemouth / - - 1943 -
Empire wrestlers Grangemouth / - - 1943 -
Empire Coppice Inglis / - - 1943 -
Empire Fay Inglis / - - 1943 -
Empire Harvest Inglis / - - 1943 -
Empire Faun Goole / - - 1943 -
Empire Drury Grangemouth / - - 1944 -
Empire Mull Grangemouth / - - 1944 -
Empire Trotwood Grangemouth / - - 1944 -
Empire Bute Inglis / - - 1944 -
Empire Dombey Inglis / - - 1944 -
Empire Jurassic Inglis / - - 1944 -
Empire Tavistock Grangemouth / - - 1945 -
Empire Orkney Inglis / - - 1945 -
Empire Shetland Inglis / - - 1945 -
Data:

literature

  • Mitchell, William H .; Sawyer, Leonard A .: Empire Ships of World War II . Sea Breezes, Liverpool 1965.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lloyd's Register of Shipping (various years)