The second was a 7,382 GRT steamship built in 1912, transferred in 1920 to Scottish Shire Line and renamed Berwickshire, and sunk by torpedo in 1944.

[1] In January 1940 Clan Macarthur, laden with general cargo, sailed from Gibraltar to Liverpool with Convoy HG 14F.

[13] In October 1941 Clan Macarthur, laden with refrigerated and general cargo, 985 tons of mail and two passengers joined Convoy HX 153 at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[15] In May 1943 Clan Macarthur, laden with refrigerated and general cargo, joined Convoy HX 237 at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[3] Clan Macarthur was proceeding at full speed on a zigzag course, and it was not until the small hours of 12 August that the submarine managed to hit her.

It exploded forward of her bridge, causing her bow to settle in the water and her stern to rise at an acute angle,[20] and at 0355 hrs she sank.

The Free French aviso Savorgnan de Brazza rescued her Master (John Drayton Matthews), 70 crew and six passengers and landed them at Port Louis.

Her Lascar seamen are commemorated in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission monuments at Chittagong and Mumbai.