SS River Clyde

River Clyde at V Beach on the Gallipoli peninsula, showing disembarkation ports cut in her starboard side.
History
United Kingdom
NameRiver Clyde[1]
NamesakeRiver Clyde, Scotland
Owner
  • Steamship 'River Clyde' Co Ltd (Ormond, Cook & Co), Glasgow (1905–1915)[2][3]
  • Sefton Steam Ship Co Ltd (H E Moss & Co), Liverpool (1915)[2]
Port of registryGlasgow
BuilderRussell & Co, Port Glasgow[1]
Yard number537[2]
Launched23 February 1905[2]
CompletedMarch 1905[1]
Out of service1915
FateSold to The Admiralty[4]
United Kingdom
NameRiver Clyde
Acquired1915[2]
Out of service1920[2]
Spain
NameAngela[1]
OwnerA Pardo[2]
Port of registrySantander
Acquired1920
Out of service1928
Spain
Name
  • Angela (until 1931)[4]
  • Maruja y Aurora (1931 onwards)[1]
OwnerGumersindo Junquera Blanco [1][2]
Port of registryGijón
Acquired7 December 1928[4]
Out of service27 August 1937[4]
Identificationsignal code HCPJ (as Maruja y Aurora)[1]
FateSeized by Spanish Nationalists, assigned to Spanish National Navy
Nationalist Spain
NameMaruja y Aurora
Acquired27 August 1937[4]
Out of service1939[4]
FateReturned to former owners
Spain
NameMaruja y Aurora[1]
Owner
  • Gumersindo Junquera Blanco (1939–1948)
  • Gumersindo Junquera S.A. (1948–1966)[2][1]
Port of registryGijón
Acquired1939[4]
Out of service1965
Identificationsignal code HCPJ[1]
FateScrapped in 1966[4]
General characteristics
Typecollier
Tonnage
Length344.8 ft (105.1 m)[1]
Beam49.8 ft (15.2 m)[1]
Draught17.9 ft (5.5 m)[1]
Installed power374 NHP[1]
PropulsionKincaid & Co. 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine;[1] single screw

SS River Clyde was a 3,913 GRT British collier built by Russell & Co of Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde and completed in March 1905. In the First World War the Admiralty requisitioned her for the Royal Navy and in 1915 she took part in the Gallipoli landings. After the war she was repaired and sold to Spanish owners, with whom she spent a long civilian career trading in the Mediterranean before being scrapped in 1966.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r LR 1930.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i River Clyde 2021.
  3. ^ MNL 1906, p. 374.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "River Clyde". shipstamps. Retrieved 2 October 2015.