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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 that heated three 180 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of .〔 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. ==Spanish Civil War== In 1938 during the Spanish Civil War General Franco's nationalist insurgents issued a statement alleging that more than 200 British-registered merchant ships had been used to supply the Spanish Republic with ''matériel'' banned by the international non-intervention agreement. One of the ships accused was ''Dover Hill'', which the statement claimed had carried a cargo of 200 lorries and 400 tons of matériel from a USSR Black Sea port to Alicante, passing through the Bosphorus on 20 April.〔 The insurgents' statement contained inaccuracies about many of the British ships to which it referred, to the extent that some of the companies and ships that it accused did not even exist.〔 In reality every ship serving a Republican port had to carry a Non-Intervention Officer representing the Non-Intervention Committee, and the Royal Navy detained any ship suspected of carrying ''matériel'' and inspected her cargo, in many cases by having it all unloaded for inspection at Gibraltar or Malta.〔Heaton, 2006〕 It is highly unlikely that ''Dover Hill'' supplied Spain with any goods banned by the Non-Intervention Agreement. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Dover Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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