Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p SS Dover Hill was a shelter deck cargo steamship built Northumberland Shipbuilding Co in Newcastle-upon-Tyne to a First World War standard design, launched on 17 December 1917 and completed in March 1918. She had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 193 square feet (18 m2) that heated three 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 8,478 square feet (788 m2). The boilers fed a 569 NHP triple expansion steam engine built by North Eastern Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. of Newcastle. She was equipped with direction finding equipment and radio.The ship was launched as Maenwen but after completion in March 1918 she entered service with Clan Line who named her Clan Macvicar. She spent most of her career under this name, but is noted for her Second World War service as Dover Hill.In 1936 the Dover Hill Steamship Co. bought Clan Macvicar, renamed her Dover Hill and placed her under the management of Counties Ship Management Ltd. Dover Hill SS Co was a one-ship company established under CSM control to own the ship.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 abstract "SS Dover Hill was a shelter deck cargo steamship built Northumberland Shipbuilding Co in Newcastle-upon-Tyne to a First World War standard design, launched on 17 December 1917 and completed in March 1918. She had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 193 square feet (18 m2) that heated three 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 8,478 square feet (788 m2). The boilers fed a 569 NHP triple expansion steam engine built by North Eastern Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. of Newcastle. She was equipped with direction finding equipment and radio.The ship was launched as Maenwen but after completion in March 1918 she entered service with Clan Line who named her Clan Macvicar. She spent most of her career under this name, but is noted for her Second World War service as Dover Hill.In 1936 the Dover Hill Steamship Co. bought Clan Macvicar, renamed her Dover Hill and placed her under the management of Counties Ship Management Ltd. Dover Hill SS Co was a one-ship company established under CSM control to own the ship.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.".