Loss

Date 16 March 1946

Event ID 573307

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/573307

Steamship BYRON DARNTON, 7,000 ton gross, of Baltimore, master King. Bound from Copenhagen to Clyde. Lost 16 Mar 1946, 10.45pm. Sanda, 150 yards from Sanda Lighthouse. Light seen & recognised by crew. Weather strong breeze, south east, force 6, haze. Cause of wreck, unknown. Crew 54, all saved. Vessel in ballast.

[Contemporary] source: John Bain, Principal Lightkeeper, Sanda Lighthouse.

(Classified as steel steamship, in ballast: date of loss cited as 16 March 1946). Bryan Darnton: this vessel was wrecked on Sanda [Island] below the lighthouse. Capt. King.

Registration: American. Built 1943. 7176grt. Length: 127m. Built: 17m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 16.42 W5 35.02).

I G Whittaker 1998.