Source Clan Line - Illustrated Fleet History

Torpedoed and Sunk  - 1915

Master

From

To

R Stirling

1903

1904

C M Sommerfelt

1904

1908

J B Green

1908

1909

W MacAlister

1909

1910

F Makepeace

1910

1912

J Clark

1912

1915

Sunk

Vessel

Built

Tonnage

Official No

Ship Builder

Engine Builder

Engine Type

HP

Screws

Clan MacAlister (2)

1903

4835

115756

Archibald MacMillan

Dumbarton

Dunsmuir & Jackson

Glasgow

Triple Expansion Steam

440 NHP

2200 IHP

1

Career Summary

CLAN MACALISTER SS was a British Passenger/Cargo Steamer of 4,835 tons built in 1903 by A MacMillan & Son, Dumbarton for Sir Charles W. Cayzer (Cayzer, Irvine), Glasgow.

In 1913 she was sold to The Clan Line Steamers Ltd.

On the 6th November 1915 when on route from Liverpool to Calcutta she was captured and torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-35 when about 120 miles S x E of Cape Martello, Crete.

Clan MacAlister (2)

VBDL

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