Honouring the Men who gave their lives whilst serving in the Merchant Navy
and whose names are on the Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll

S.S. GARTNESS (Glasgow)  -  WW1

Gartness was a 2,422 GRT steam cargo ship. She was sunk on 19 August 1917 by torpedo fired by Austrian submarine U-40  approximately 180 nautical miles South-East by East of Malta. She was enroute from Ergasteria to Middlesbrough with a cargo of manganese ore, lead and arsenic.