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Port broadside view of S.S. STANGRANT at Cardiff Docks, c.1939.

ss STANGRANT (5817gt) : Built 1912 by Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Ltd., Hebburn-on-Tyne (engine by North Eastern Marine Engineers Ltd., Sunderland) as PORT MACQUARIE for W.Milburn & Co., London (managed by Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.). 1914 – Transferred to Port Line (Commonwealth & Dominion Line), London (same name). 1927 – Sold to R.J. Thomas, Cardiff (former managing director of William Thomas & Co., Liverpool), and renamed CAMBRIAN MARCHIONESS. 1929 – Sold to Clan Line Steamers Ltd. (Cayzer, Irvine & Co Ltd), London and renamed CLAN GRANT. 1935 – Sold to Houston Line / R.P. Houston & Co., Liverpool (same name), managed by British & South American Steam Navigation Co. 1939 – Sold to Stanhope Shipping Co. Ltd., (Jack Billmier & Co. Ltd., London), and renamed STANGRANT. She was sunk by U-37 north-east of Rockall on 13th October 1940 while carrying scrap metal from Virginia to Belfast as part of Convoy HX-77. Eight of her crew were lost but the captain Evan David Rowlands, the remaining 28 crew and one gunner were later picked up by a Sunderland flying boat and landed at Oban. (wikipedia/clanline)(u-boat.net)