About: SS Dover Hill

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SS Dover Hill was a United Kingdom shelter deck cargo steamship. She was launched as Maenwen but before she was completed Clan Line bought her and renamed her Clan Macvicar. She spent most of her career under this name, but is noted for her Second World War service under her later name Dover Hill. In 1936 Counties Ship Management Ltd bought Clan Macvicar and renamed her Dover Hill. In the Second World War Dover Hill served with distinction on Arctic convoy duty. In the Normandy landings she was scuttled as a Corn Cob block ship for a Gooseberry Harbour.

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  • SS Dover Hill was a United Kingdom shelter deck cargo steamship. She was launched as Maenwen but before she was completed Clan Line bought her and renamed her Clan Macvicar. She spent most of her career under this name, but is noted for her Second World War service under her later name Dover Hill. In 1936 Counties Ship Management Ltd bought Clan Macvicar and renamed her Dover Hill. In the Second World War Dover Hill served with distinction on Arctic convoy duty. In the Normandy landings she was scuttled as a Corn Cob block ship for a Gooseberry Harbour. (en)
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  • 1917-12-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Scuttledas aCorn Cobblock ship
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  • 22.224000 (xsd:double)
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  • *by 1943: *Bofors 40 mm gun *Oerlikon 20 mm cannon (en)
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  • Shipping Controller standard design F1 (en)
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  • March 1918 (en)
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  • 1 (xsd:integer)
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  • Scuttled as a Corn Cob block ship (en)
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  • *UK official number 141878 *Code Letters JSTP * *Call sign GQMN * (en)
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  • 1917-12-15 (xsd:date)
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  • *Maenwen *Clan Macvicar *Dover Hill (en)
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  • *Counties Ship Mgt *J & J Denholm (en)
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  • *W & CT Jones SS Co *Clan Line *Dover Hill SS Co *Ministry of War Transport (en)
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  • *569 NHP *3,400 IHP (en)
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  • *Cardiff *Glasgow (en)
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  • wireless direction finding (en)
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  • , (en)
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  • 244 (xsd:integer)
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  • SS Dover Hill was a United Kingdom shelter deck cargo steamship. She was launched as Maenwen but before she was completed Clan Line bought her and renamed her Clan Macvicar. She spent most of her career under this name, but is noted for her Second World War service under her later name Dover Hill. In 1936 Counties Ship Management Ltd bought Clan Macvicar and renamed her Dover Hill. In the Second World War Dover Hill served with distinction on Arctic convoy duty. In the Normandy landings she was scuttled as a Corn Cob block ship for a Gooseberry Harbour. (en)
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  • SS Dover Hill (en)
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  • *Clan Macvicar (1918–36) (en)
  • *Dover Hill (1936–44) (en)
  • *Maenwen (1917–18) (en)
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