SS Empire Darwin

Empire Darwin, as she appeared from 1941 to 1943.
History
Name	Empire Darwin (1941–46) Culrain (1946–59) Mersinidi (1959–67)
Owner	Ministry of War Transport (1941–45) South Georgia Co Ltd (1945–59) North Europe & Persian Gulf Transport Corporation (1959–66)
Operator	Evan T Radcliffe & Co Ltd (1941–43) Christian Salvesen & Co Ltd (1943–59) J Livanos & Sons Ltd (1959–66)
Port of registry	West Hartlepool, UK (1941–45) Leith, UK (1945–59) Monrovia, Liberia (1959–66)
Builder	William Gray & Co. Ltd.
Launched	13 May 1941
Completed	July 1941
Out of service	1966
Identification	United Kingdom Official Number 168927 (1941–59) Code Letters BCMQ (1941–59)
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	CAM ship (1941–43) Cargo ship (1943–67)
Tonnage	6,710 GRT 4,870 NRT
Length	419 ft 2 in (127.76 m)
Beam	56 ft 7 in (17.25 m)
Draught	26 ft 7 in (8.10 m)
Depth	33 ft 9 in (10.29 m)
Propulsion	Triple expansion steam engine
Armament	1 x Hawker Sea Hurricane (1941–43)

Empire Darwin was a British 6,765 GRT CAM ship built in 1941 by William Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool, United Kingdom for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). Her Hawker Sea Hurricane was involved in the last action by an aircraft flown off a CAM ship, shooting down a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor on 28 July 1943.

She was sold into merchant service in 1945 and renamed Culrain in 1946. In 1953, she was in collision with a Spanish ship in the Strait of Gibraltar, sinking her. In 1959, she was sold to Lebanon and renamed Mersinidi, operating under the Liberian flag. She served until 1966, and was scrapped in 1967.