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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
3/4 starboard stern view of S.S. BARON COCHRANE at Cardiff Docks, c.1936.
S.S. BARON COCHRANE (3385gt). Built 1927 by Ayrshire Dockyard Ltd., Irvine for Kelvin Shipping Co., of Ardrossan and managed by H. Hogarth & Sons. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to Rio de Janeiro with a cargo of coal when she was torpedoed by three U-boats and finally sunk northwest of the Azores just before midnight on 28 December 1942 with a loss of two lives. The 42 survivors were picked up by HMS MILNE and landed at Ponta Delgada.
