Build during the First World War as Yard No 243 by the shipyard of Ramage & Ferguson, she was launched in July 1917, as an order for the huge Ellerman Wilson Lines shipping company.
SS Darino would see service during the inter-war years from her launch in 1917 till she was sunk just a couple of months after the start of the Second World War when she was hit by a torpedoes from a German U-Boat with the loss of 16 of her crew.
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