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S.S. DARTFORD, glass negative
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.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
79.76I/271
Acquisition
Purchase, 20/9/1979
Measurements
Length
(mm): 120
Width
(mm): 164
Techniques
gelatin dry plate glass negative
glass negative
negative
Material
glass
Location
In store
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