Bronze Age Gold from Wales
S.S. DINARIC, glass negative
Port broadside view of S.S. DINARIC at Cardiff Docks, c.1938.
(2555gt) : Laid down as WAR LEMON for the Shipping Controller by Dunlop, Bremner & Co Ltd, Port Glasgow, but launched 1919 as COATSWORTH for Robert Stanley Shipping Co, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 1929 - Sold to R.S. Dalgliesh Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 1939 - Sold to Kvarner Brodarsko DD, Susak, Yugoslavia and renamed DINARIC, but taken over by the UK Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) in 1941 under the management of Stone & Rolfe Ltd, Llanelly. On 6 July 1942, she was torpedoed amidships in the engine room by U-132 in the St. Lawrence River while in convoy QS-15. The explosion killed four crew members on watch below. The surviving 28 crew members and six gunners abandoned ship in the port lifeboat as the starboard one had been blown away, and were afterwards picked up by the Canadian minesweeper DRUMMONDVILLE and landed at Sydney, Nova Scotia, on 7 July. DINARIC remained afloat on her cargo of timber, but sank on the 9 July before she could be salvaged.