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SS Empire Conveyor
''Empire Conveyor'' was a shelter deck cargo ship that was built in 1917 as ''Farnworth'' by Richardson, Duck and Company,〔 Thornaby-on-Tees, England. After a sale in 1924 she was renamed ''Illinois''. In 1926, she was sold to France, and in 1934 to Greece and was renamed ''Mount Pentelikon''. In 1939, she was sold to Germany and was renamed ''Gloria''.
At the outbreak of the Second World War she was in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She tried to return to Germany but was captured by the Royal Navy, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed ''Empire Conveyor''. She served until 22 June 1940 when she was torpedoed and sunk by off Barra Head.
==Description==
The ship was long, with a beam of . She had a depth of and a draught of . She was assessed at , .〔
The ship had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of heating her three single-ended 180 lbf/in2 boilers, which had a combined heating surface of .〔 The boilers fed a 440 NHP triple expansion steam engine that was built by Blair & Co Ltd of Stockton-on-Tees.〔 It had cylinders of , and diameter, by stroke〔 and could propel the ship at .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FARNWORTH )〕
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