High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The SS Blairspey was a steam merchant ship that saw service during the Second World War. She was part of the ill-fated convoy SC-7, but despite being hit by at least three torpedoes from two different U-boats, managed to reach port. Blairspey was built by the Ardrossan Dockyard & Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Ardrossan, was launched on 5 September 1929 and completed in October 1929. She was operated by George Nisbet & Co and was homeported in Glasgow. On the outbreak of the Second World War she was used to carry important war material to the United Kingdom. Her first convoy was SC-7, which sailed from Sydney, Nova Scotia on 5 October 1940. She sailed from Rimouski, Quebec to join the convoy at Sydney, carrying a cargo of timber. Having crossed the North Atlantic it was intended that she would continue on to Grangemouth.