SS Loch Ryan

History
Name	Empire Chieftain (1943-46) Loch Ryan (1946-60) Fair Ryan (1960)
Owner	Ministry of War Transport (1943-45) Ministry of Transport (1945-46) Royal Mail Lines (1946-60) Argonaut Shipping & Trading Co Ltd (1960)
Operator	Royal Mail Lines (1943-60) Argonaut Shipping & Trading Co Ltd (1960)
Port of registry	Middlesbrough
Builder	Furness Shipbuilding Company
Yard number	354
Launched	20 May 1943
Completed	October 1943
Identification	Code Letters BFKL United Kingdom Official Number 164863
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage	9,904 GRT 7,155 NRT
Length	475 ft 5 in (144.91 m)
Beam	64 ft 4 in (19.61 m)
Depth	40 ft 0 in (12.19 m)
Installed power	Steam turbines
Propulsion	Screw propeller

Loch Ryan was a 9,904 GRT heavy lift cargo liner which was built by Furness Shipbuilding Ltd, Haverton Hill-on-Tees in 1943 as Empire Chieftain for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). In 1946 she was sold to Royal Mail Lines and renamed Loch Ryan. She served until 1960, when she was sold to Argonaut Shipping & Trading Co Ltd and was renamed Fair Ryan, being scrapped later that year.