s.s. 'Ramsgarth' - She was built in 1910 at the yard of the Sir Raylton Dixon & Company Limited situated on the banks of the river Tees at Sunderland, launched during 1910 and was of 1,553 gross register tons. She was owned by the R. & J. H. Rea Limited of Liverpool who also had an office at Cardiff and is seen in this photograph to be in to company's livery.
She was sold to Richardsons, Westgarth & Company of Middlesbrough or the South Metropolitan Gas Company of London, dependent upon which source you read, in early 1916 but in November of the same year, whilst en-route from Cardiff & Brixham to the Tyne in ballast, she was sunk by the German submarine UB-39, eight miles south of Worthing Pier. Fortunately no crew members were lost in the attack. The Germans apparently boarded and scuttled the vessel using explosives.
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