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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Port Broadside view of S.S. DARTFORD c.1936.
S.S. DARTFORD (4093 gt). Built 1930 by Smith's Dock, South Shields and owned by British Steamship Company (Watts, Watts & Co. Ltd., London). On the 12 June 1942 when en route from Oban for Sydney in ballast in Convoy ONS-100 she was torpedoed by U-124 and sunk south of Cape Race. Thirty crew were lost from a total of forty seven.
