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S.S. SARASTONE, glass negative
Port broadside view of S.S. SARASTONE, c.1936.
The 2,473 gross ton steam collier Sarastone about to enter Barry Docks, c. 1936. Built at Burntisland, Fife, in 1929, this vessel was owned by Stone & Rolfe of Llanelli. On 22 December 1940 this vessel succeeded in fighting off an attack by the Italian submarine Moncenigo, but she was eventually bombed and sunk by German aircraft just after leaving the Spanish port of Huelva on 29 October 1941.
Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.
ss SARASTONE (2473gt) : Built 1929 by Burntisland Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Burntisland for S. & R. Steamships, Ltd. (Stone & Rolfe, Ltd.), Llanelly. She was bombed and sunk on 29 Oct 1941, while voyaging from Huelva to Ardrossan with a cargo of copper pyrites.