Cemetery, Sorbie Road
20 18
October 2012
On the afternoon of Saturday 27 March 1943, the Royal Navy aircraft carrier
HMS Dasher was sailing in the Clyde Estuary between Ardrossan and Arran. At
4.40 pm, there was an enormous explosion. Within a short time, the ship sank.
Of the 528 men on board, 379 were killed by the blast or drowned. Some of them
are buried in the graves shown above.