EMPIRE CLYDE

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During its final years of service, the Cameronia had been converted to a troopship and renamed the Empire Clyde.
Built by William Beardmore & Company in 1921, the Cameronia was 578 feet long and 70 feet wide, displacing 16,280 gross tons.
She had a service speed of 16 knots. Passenger capacity was 1,785.
She was built for the Anchor Line and sailed the Glasgow - New York route.
She served as a troopship from 1940 to 1947 after which she was rebuilt as an Australian immigration ship and put to sea in 1948.
In 1953 she was renamed Empire Clyde and finished her days as a troopship.
During World War Two she carried troops to the invasions of North Africa, Sicily and Normandy.
After the war she took emigrants to Australia.
The Ministry of Transport bought her in 1953, she was decomissioned in 1957 and broken up in Wales.

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In her earlier guise as the "Cameronia"

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As the "Empire Clyde" in her trooping colours, white with a blue band

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Thanks to George Muir, who served on the Empire Clyde in 1957, for both photos and information.

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