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The general cargo steamer Barnby was one of two new vessels ordered for the Rowland & Marwood Steamship Company (Headlam & Son, Managers) in 1938. Built by Short Brothers at Sunderland and completed in 1940 with the aid of a government shipping loan, she was registered at 4,813 tons gross (8,120 deadweight) and measured 439 feet in length with a 54 foot beam. After barely a year in service, Barnby was torpedoed by U-111 and sunk east of Cape Farewell on 22nd May 1941 whilst on route from St. John, New Brunswick, to Hull carrying 7,250 tons of flour; two men from her crew of 37 lost their lives in the sinking.