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SS Clan Sinclair (1907) The SS Clan Sinclair (1907) was a cargo vessel of 5,215 tons and launched in 1907 for Clan Line Steamers Ltd, of Glasgow. She was registered at Glasgow.

During the First World War she took part in a number of convoys. On the 18th April 1917, under the Command of Captain William Henry Price the Clan Sinclair had a brisk encounter with a submarine while on her homeward jouney from South Africa to Liverpool. At half-past six in the evening a torpedo missed her by a few feet only, and a submarine then rose right astern and immediately opened fire. Eight rounds were fired at the Clan Sinclair, which fired six in reply; the gnner reported that after his last shot, at a quarter to eight, a sudden flame had been seen to spring up, the submarine dissapearing immediately afterwards. Whether or not she had been destroyed, it was impossible to say for certain, but nothingmore was seen of her, and thge Clan Sinclair had certainly been saved. In this engagement those on board felt themselves well rewarded by the wireless message from the admiral commanding at Crookhaven, "Well done Clan Sinclair," and, as a mark of appreciation, all of her crew received special recognition.

Six months later Captain Price was put ashore in Norfolk Virginia and died from Typhoid fever in the hospital, after a six day illness and was buried in the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Norfolk, Virginia.

The SS Clan Sinclair was scrapped in 1933.