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Owner Clan Line Steamers Ltd., London England. Part of a sub-class of the Cameron-class ships with identical dimensions numbering 11 ships consisting of Clan Forbes, Clan Buchanan, Clan Cameron, Clan Campbell, Clan Chattan, Clan Cumming, Clan Ferguson, Clan Fraser, Clan Lamont, Clan Menzie, and HMS Engadine, the latter was to be named Clan Buchanan. Launched by Greenock Dockyard Co., River Clyde, Greenock, Scotland with yard number 438 on 22 March 1939, completed in June 1939, requsitioned by the Admiralty for conversion in 1942, commissioned in the navy on 25 April 1944, renamed HMS Lamont on 1 May 1944, served as Landing Ship Infantry during the landings at Normandy, France in 1944, renamed HMS Ard Patrick on 8 August 1945, given back to her original owner on 16 September 1947, commissioned as Clan Lamont in 1947 and broken up in Japan in 1961.
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