SS Empire Darwin
British ship built in 1941 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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![]() Empire Darwin, as she appeared from 1941 to 1943. | |
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Owner |
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Operator |
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Port of registry | |
Builder | William Gray & Co. Ltd. |
Launched | 13 May 1941 |
Completed | July 1941 |
Out of service | 1966 |
Identification |
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Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type |
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Tonnage | |
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) |
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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.