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S.S. BARON CARNEGIE, glass negative
3/4 starboard bow view of S.S. BARON CARNEGIE, at Cardiff Docks, c.1936.
S.S. BARON CARNEGIE (3178gt). Built 1925 by Dunlop Bremner & Co, Port Glasgow for the Kelvin Shipping Co. (H Hogarth & Sons), Ardrossan. On the 11th June 1941 she was bombed and strafed by a German aircraft 15 miles west of St.Davids Head, sailing under Captain George Cumming in ballast from Milford Haven for Takoradi (Ghana) as part of Convoy OB-334. Disabled and split down both sides, she was taken in tow but sank shortly after midnight. Out of the 39 crew, including military gunners, 25 were killed or missing presumed dead.