She was built in 1943 by Alisa Shipbuilding at Troon and operated under the authority of the British MWoT until the end of the war. I do know that the survivors from the war and those completed after the war was over would serve with various civilian owners and with the occasional changes in name well into the Cold War Era.Įmpire Jessica was a typical Scandinavian. At least three were lost during the war ( Baltallin, 20 September 1941 Confederation Park, 3 June 1944 and Taber Park, 28 August 1944), but that's all I currently have on wartime losses for the class. Not a one of the Scandinavians made a name for itself in any major way at any time during the war AFAIK - at least major enough to still make the history books today. The latter group are known as the Scandinavian Parks in Canadian wartime shipbuiliding records, with Park being used as part of the wartime Canadian naming convention as with the larger Fort types. 38 were built by six British shipyards between 19 alone, with more being made after the war and in addition to 43 more built during the war at four Canadian yards. It was soon discovered that they were particularly well suited for use with the Allied convoys to Murmansk with some minor tweaks and stronger cranes, and many of them were adapted accordingly and used to help supply the Russians during the war. A prewar design adapted and standardized for wartime use, Scandinavians were intended as jack-of-all-trades general purpose small tramp steamers. It was the British MoWT's analog to the American MARCOM N3 series small merchantman, which was sometimes called the American Jeep in comparison among British merchant shippers during the war. of West Hartlepool, and from its relatively small size for a cargo ship - which invited comparisons to the American-built Willys Jeep.
Its nickname comes both from its design's creator, William Gray and Co. The "Scandinavian" type cargo ship, nicknamed the Hartlepool Jeep at the time, was among the smallest, slowest (at 9.5 knots top speed), and most unglamorous of the British Ministry of War Transport's (MoWT) various Empire shipbuilding programs during World War II. My copy comes from the Living Silent Hunfan uber-mod (LSH3 2015). Ported to OBJ from the model created by Lilliput and EON for Silent Hunter 3 (SH3) by Ubisoft, and which has since been ported to other games in the Silent Hunter series and included with many fan mods, mod packs, etc.
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