Cameron class steamer

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The Cameron-class steamers were a ship class of steamships of the Clan Line.

  • Clan Macauley, launched 1936, bombed at Malta, scrapped 1963
  • Clan Chisholm, launched 1937, sailed in convoy from Gibraltar and torpedoed and sunk by U48 in October 1939
  • Clan Buchanan, launched 1937, sunk in Indian Ocean by German raider Pinguin 1941
  • Clan Cumming, launched 1937, convoy duties to Malta and Athens, torpedoed off Piraeus harbour in January 1941 but reached port, sunk by mine in the Gulf of Athens April 1941.
  • Clan Ferguson, launched 1938, torpedoed and sunk by aircraft on a Malta convoy August 1942
  • Clan Forbes, launched 1938, convoy duties to Malta and Athens disguised as HMS Maidstone with a dummy funnel.
  • Clan Fraser, launched 1938, convoy duties to Malta and Athens. Bombed from the air in Piraeus harbour in April 1941 whilst carrying a cargo of ammunition, exploded and sunk
  • Clan Macdonald, launched 1939, war service as Convoy Commodore ship on Mediterranean convoy to Piraeus 1941, thence to Brisbane and back to United Kingdom, bombed in UK, scrapped 1967
  • Clan Lamont, launched 1939, served as a Landing Ship Infantry made 6 crossings carrying troops on D-Day, commissioned as HMS Lamont July 1944, service in Far East, re-entered Clan Line 1947, scrapped 1961

Three were requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1942 while still under construction:

Two other ships are counted as part of this class:

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