The series was built on behalf of the Ministry of War Transport (MOWT) in order to get quick access with supply tankers to French ports after landing in Normandy . The series was named after the type ship Empire Pym . The design of the Empire-Pym standard tanker with a length of around 92 meters, a load capacity of around 3300 tons, superstructures arranged somewhat in front of amidships and an engine room located aft resembled contemporary tankers. The ship's hull a of the jaw below the deckhouse solid and up to the elevated poop reaching well above the main deck addition reaching trunk . A triple expansion steam engine served as the drive system . All units were delivered in 1944/45 and were given two-part names with empire and an appended term. The construction series of a total of 4 units was carried out by the Grangemouth Dockyard Company in Grangemouth and the Blythswood Shipbuilding Company in Glasgow.
The ships
Empire pym type
Building name
Shipyard / construction number
delivery
Later names and whereabouts
Empire Pym
Grangemouth / -
1944
1946 Refast , 1953 Cassian , 1954 Mobilsud , 1964 Janson , 1966 Capo Mannu , scrapped in Italy in 1980
Empire Roseberry
Blythswood / -
1944
Sunk by a sea mine on August 24, 1944 off Normandy
Empire Jewel
Grangemouth / -
1945
1946 Fossarus , scrapped in Singapore in 1960
Empire Jumna
Grangemouth / -
1945
1946 Fossularca , scrapped in 1964
Data:
literature
Mitchell, William H .; Sawyer, Leonard A .: Empire Ships of World War II . Sea Breezes, Liverpool 1965.
