Standard Fast Cargo Liner

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The Standard Fast Cargo Liner was a type of general cargo ship that was built in British shipyards during the Second World War . They belong to the group of Empire ships .

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The Standard Fast Cargo Liner was developed by the Furness Shipbuilding Company in Haverton Hill on Tees on behalf of the British government . It had a deadweight of around 12,000 tons and reached a speed of 15 knots, making it significantly faster than the previously built British standard freighters. The higher speed made it possible to use the ships as single drivers outside of convoys. The superstructures and the engine room of the ships were arranged directly behind amidships .

The ship's design was developed by mid-1942. The first ship to be completed was the Empire Chieftain , which was delivered in October 1943 . By the end of the war, initially twelve units were built, then some more as civil orders, the latter partly deviating from the original design. In addition to the Furness Shipbuilding Company, the Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineering in Dundee, Joseph L. Thompson and Sons and Sir James Laing and Sons in Sunderland, Charles Connell & Company in Glasgow and Lithgows in Port Glasgow built units of this type.

literature

  • Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA: Empire Ships of World War II . Sea Breezes, Liverpool 1965.