HMS Engadine was a 9,909 ton cargo ship

Cargo ship

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 laid down at the Greenock Dockyard Company

Greenock Dockyard Company

The Greenock Dockyard Company was a Scottish shipbuilding and ship repair firm located at Greenock, on the River Clyde.-History:The company was established by J E Scott of Greenock, with the yard at Cartsdyke being taken over in 1879 by Russell and Company, of Greenock, which later became Lithgows...

, Greenock

Greenock

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, Scotland

Scotland

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 on 16 March 1940, launched

Ship naming and launching

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 on 26 May 1941 and completed on 17 November 1941.

She was originally built for the Clan Line

Clan Line

The Clan Line was a passenger and cargo shipping company that operated in one incarnation or another from the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century.-Foundation and early years:...

, and named Clan Buchanan (the previous Clan Buchanan having been sunk by the German

Germany

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 raider on 28 April 1941). However she was taken over by the British Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 before completion and renamed in honour of the first for use as a seaplane depot ship.

She was loaned to the US Navy

United States Navy

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 from November 1942 until July 1943. At the end of the war, she was sold back to the Clan Line in 1946 and reverted to her original name. The ship was eventually scrapped at Cartagena

Cartagena, Spain

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, Spain

Spain

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in November 1962.