SS Belgian Crew

SS Belgian Crew was a 7,048 gross register ton cargo ship built in 1942 by Sir W G Armstrong, Whitworth and Co (Shipbuilders) Ltd at Newcastle upon Tyne as Empire Claymore for the Ministry of War Transport. She was launched on 19 November 1942, completed in January 1943, and was 430 feet 9 inches long, with a triple expansion steam engine. Transferred to the Belgian Government on 21 June 1943 and renamed Belgian Crew, she sailed in Atlantic convoys HX 240, HX 251 and HX 292 carrying grain, steel and lumber. Sold to Compagnie Maritime Belge in 1946 as Capitaine Parlet, then to Hong Kong in 1960 as Ardenode and to Panama in 1966 as Tynlee, she arrived at Kaohsiung in July 1969 for scrapping.