Glenearn class
.jpg) The Glenearn
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The Glenearn class , occasionally also the Glenroy class of the British shipping company Glen Line , was built in eight units from 1938. The combination ships of this class formed the basis of several post-war series of the Alfred Holt & Company shipping group .
details
The Glenearn class ships were developed in Alfred Holt's design department under the leadership of Harry Flett for the Far East and Australian service of the subsidiary Glen Line. The individual units were built at various British and foreign construction yards. The name of the class was derived from the type ship Glenearn . The basic design was built in eight units, which were followed by two replicas at the end of the war. The basic concept of the Glenearn class formed the basis for numerous subsequent classes, such as the largely comparable ships of the A-class , H-class , P-class , Nestor-class and M-class . The period in which Alfred Holt used ships of all these classes extended well into the 1970s and thus shaped the appearance of the group's fleet for several decades. The individual ships also remained in the liner service of the various subsidiary shipping companies for a long time before they were sold.
technical description
The Glenearn class ships were built as combination ships with superstructures arranged amidships and had 18 passenger places. From the mid-1960s, passenger transport was largely discontinued, the passenger facilities remained unused and the units continued to be operated as conventional general cargo ships. The ships had a deadweight capacity of around 9600 tons, six holds with refrigerated holds and sweet oil tanks . The cargo was handled with conventional loading gear . The drive consisted of two six-cylinder two-stroke diesel engines from the Danish manufacturer B&W .
The ships (selection)
| Ship name | Shipyard / construction number | IMO number | Launched into service |
Shipping company | Later names and whereabouts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenearn | Caledon Shipbuilding / 368 | 5311945 | June 29, 1938 1938 |
Glen Line | Taken over by the Admiralty on October 15, 1939 and converted into a fast fleet supplier by April 25, 1940, again converted into an Infantry Assault Ship by December 13, 1940 , damaged on the forecastle in April 1941 in the course of the evacuation of Greece, from the Griffin to Alexandria towed and repaired, rammed by the burning Georgic in July 1941 , towed to Colombo and repaired, damaged on landing in Normandy, repaired at the Clyde until July 1944, deployed in the Far East and from August 8, 1946 at Smith's Dock in Middlesbrough for Merchant ship dismantled, returned to Glen Line in December 1947, sold to Tung Cheng Steel and Iron Works in Kaohsiung for scrapping in October 1970 and scrapped there from January 10th to February 28th, 1971 |
| Glenroy | Scott's Shipbuilding / 571 | no | August 15, 1938 December 27, 1938 |
Glen Line | Taken over by the Admiralty in October 1939 and converted into a fast fleet supplier, from June 10, 1940 again converted into an Infantry Assault Ship , damaged in an air raid on Liverpool on September 12, 1940 and completed on November 24, 1940, on April 22, 1941 in the train ran aground off Alexandria during the evacuation of Greece and repaired it again, damaged by a torpedo attack from the air on November 23, 1941 on the journey from Alexandria to Tobruk, towed by the Carlisle , aground at Mersa Matruh, lifted, brought to Alexandria and repaired for transfer to Cardiff by November 1942, converted to Landing Ship, Infantry (Large) by February 21, 1944 and damaged by mine on June 17, 1944 on landing in Normandy, repaired and removed in Cardiff by January 20, 1945 Dismantled to a merchant ship at Silly, Cox and Company in Falmouth on August 14, 1946, back to the Glen Line on May 27, 1948, ready for scrapping in September 1966 Ataka and Company in Onomichi, resold to Tarumoto Sangyo KK and scrapped in Kure from November 2nd, 1966 |
| Denbigshire | Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw / 269 | no | October 29, 1938 1939 |
Glen Line | On fire in Valletta in 1942, extinguished and then repaired, 1945 service in the British Pacific Fleet , 1946 back to the Glen Line, in December 1967 to the China Mutual Steam Navigation Company, 1968 to the Ocean Steam Ship Company and renamed Sarpedon on May 13th 1969 sold to the Tui Cheng Company after demolition, arrived in Kaohsiung on August 11, 1969 and scrapped from October 1969 |
| Breconshire | Taikoo Dockyard / 276 | no | February 2, 1939 September 1939 |
Glen Line | Taken over by the Admiralty in November 1939 and converted into a fast fleet supplier, damaged by an air raid in convoy MW 10 from Alexandria to Malta on March 23, 1942, taken in tow, run into a mine when approaching Grand Harbor, sunk off Malta during a later rescue attempt and abandoned, overturned on August 14, 1950 in the capsized condition, superstructure removed and sold to Leopoldo Rodrigues from Malta, towed to Messina and aground in the capsized condition, sold in 1952 to Navigazione Libera Triestina from Trieste, towed to Taranto and for planned reconstruction rebuilt, finally scrapped in 1954 in San Marco, Trieste |
| Glengyle | Caledon Shipbuilding / 372 | 5132004 | July 18, 1939 October 19, 1939 |
Glen Line | Taken over by the Admiralty on completion and converted into a fast fleet supplier by April 6, 1941, again converted into an Infantry Assault Ship by September 10, 1941 , deployed in the Mediterranean and dismantled from July 17, 1946 at Vickers-Armstrongs to a merchant ship, on March 3 Back to Glen Line in 1948, renamed the Ocean Steam Ship Company and Deucalion in October 1970 , sold to Tung Cheng Steel and Iron Works in Kaohsiung for scrapping in 1971 and scrapped there from August 9, 1971 |
| Glenorchy | Taikoo Dockyard / 277 | no | May 1939 December 1939 |
Glen Line | Sunk by a German speedboat on August 13, 1942, five nautical miles northwest of the Kelibia lighthouse |
| Glengarry | Burmeister and Wain / 643 | 5131995 | November 6, 1939 May 1940 |
Glen Line | Confiscated after the German troops marched into Denmark and operated as Meersburg by the Hamburg-America line . Initially a submarine depot ship, rebuilt from 1942/43 at Wilton-Fijenoord in Rotterdam and at Blohm + Voss in Hamburg to the commercial disturbance cruiser Hansa (Schiff 5), used as a training ship. Handed over to Allied troops in Kiel on May 4, 1945, transferred to the Ministry of War Transport and renamed Empire Humber, renamed back to Glen Line and Glengarry in 1946, renamed Ocean Steam Ship Company in August 1970 and renamed Dardanus in January 1971 back to Glen Line and renamed back to Glengarry for the last trip to Sakaide, handed over to Mitsui and Company on February 10, 1971 with the agreement to rename it again to Dardanus , scrapped from March 1, 1971 at the Miyayi Salvage Corporation in Tadaju |
| Glenartney | Caledon Shipbuilding / 373 | no | December 27, 1939 1940 |
Glen Line | Sold to Seibu Koygo KK for demolition in January 1967 and scrapped in Onomichi from April 1, 1967 |
| Priam | Caledon Shipbuilding / 367 | 5132080 | June 25, 1941 1941 |
Ocean Steamship Company | 1940 adopted on the slipway of the Admiralty and for conversion to escort carrier provided 1,941 returned without modification to the Ocean Steamship Company and completed on 20 October 1948 to Glen Line and in Glenorchy renamed, 1970 Ocean Steamship Company and Phemius renamed , Sold in 1971 after demolition to the Tung Cheng Steel & Iron Works in Kaohsiung, arrived there on April 27, 1971 and scrapped from June 20 to August 2, 1971 |
| Telemachus | Caledon Shipbuilding / - | no | 1942 September 15, 1942 |
Ocean Steamship Company | Taken over by the Ministry of Transport on the Helgen in February 1941 and renamed Empire Activity , before completion in January 1942 taken over by the Admiralty and converted into the escort aircraft carrier HMS Activity by September 15, 1942 , initially as a landing training ship and from 1943 escorted by convoys used the North Atlantic and to Russia, in April 1944 their planes sank three German submarines during an escort, in 1945 they transported planes and spare parts to the British Pacific Fleet, taken out of navy service in December 1945 and to the Glen Line in May 1946, until September Dismantled in 1947 at Palmers in Hebburn-on-Tyne to a merchant ship and renamed in Breconshire , last voyage from Kobe to Mihara on April 20, 1967 , scrapped from May 1967 at Ataka & Company in Etajima |
literature
- Haws, Duncan: Blue Funnel Line . 1st edition. TCL Publications, Torquay 1984, ISBN 0-946378-01-0 .