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SS Dover HillUnited Kingdom
Name
  • Maenwen (1917–18)
  • Clan Macvicar (1918–36)
  • Dover Hill (1936–44)
Owner
  • W & CT Jones SS Co (1917–18)
  • Clan Line (1918–36)
  • Dover Hill SS Co (1936–43)
  • Ministry of War Transport (1943–44)
Operator
  • Counties Ship Mgt (1936–43)
  • J & J Denholm (1943–44)
Port of registry
  • Cardiff (1917–18)
  • Glasgow (1918–44)
BuilderNorthumberland Shipbuilding Co
Yard number244
Launched15 December 1917
CompletedMarch 1918
Identification
  • UK official number 141878
  • Code Letters JSTP (until 1933)
  • Call sign GQMN (1934 onward)
FateScuttled as a Corn Cob block ship
General characteristics
Class and typeShipping Controller standard design F1
TypeCargo ship
Tonnage5,818 GRT, 3,621 NRT
Length400.1 ft (122.0 m)
Beam53.0 ft (16.2 m)
Draught32.8 ft (10.0 m)
Decks1
Installed power
  • 569 NHP
  • 3,400 IHP
Propulsiontriple expansion steam engine
Speed12 knots (22 km/h)
Sensors and
processing systems
wireless direction finding
Armament
  • by 1943:
  • Bofors 40 mm gun
  • Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

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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