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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Port broadside view of S.S. BARON LOUDOUN at Cardiff Docks, c.1936.
S.S. BARON LOUDOUN (3164GT). Built 1925 by Lithgows, Port Glasgow, for H Hogarth & Sons (Kelvin Shipping Co) Ardrossan. She was powered by a steam triple expansion engine of 225nhp. Engines by J. G. Kincaid. On 19 June 1940 she was captained by Joseph Henderson Johnson and was part of Convoy HGF-34 sailing from Bona to Barrow with 5050 tons of iron ore. At 02.56 hours she was torpedoed and sunk by U-48, wnw of Cape Ortegal. Three crew members were lost while the master and 29 crew members were picked up by the British sloop HMS SCARBOROUGH and landed at Liverpool.
