Glendinning
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| Name | Glendinning | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 1.927 tons | ||
| Completed | 1921 - Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co Ltd, Blyth | ||
| Owner | George Gibson & Co Ltd, Leith | ||
| Homeport | Leith | ||
| Date of attack | 5 Jul, 1944 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-953 (Karl-Heinz Marbach) | ||
| Position | 50.32N, 00.22W - Grid BF 3196 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 33 (4 dead and 29 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | ETC-27 | ||
| Route | Arromanches beach, Normandy - London | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Built as Sheaf Garth, 1937 renamed British Bramwell for Angel, Son & Co, Ltd, Cardiff; 1940 renamed Glendinning | ||
| Notes on loss | At 08.01 hours on 5 Jul, 1944, U-953 fired a spread of two LUT torpedoes and at 08.05 hours one Gnat at the convoy ETC-27 in the English Channel off Cap dŽAntifer. Marbach observed one ship sinking, heard a detonation after 4 minutes 27 seconds and claimed two ships sunk. However, only the Glendinning (Master John William Cromarty) was torpedoed and sunk. Two crewmen and two gunners were lost. The master, 20 crewmen, seven gunners and one naval signalman were picked up by the British motor launch HM ML-250 (LtCdr J.D.S. Header) of the 19th ML-Flotilla, later transferred to the British escort destroyer HMS Fernie (L 11) (Lt J.A. Tricker) and landed at Sheerness. | ||
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