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SS Athenia was a steam turbine transatlantic passenger liner built in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1923 for the Anchor-Donaldson Line, which later became the Donaldson Atlantic Line. She worked between the United Kingdom and the east coast of Canada until 3 September 1939, when a torpedo from the German submarine U-30 sank her in the Western Approaches .
SS Athenia was the first Donaldson Line ship of that name to be torpedoed and sunk off Inishtrahull, ... The wreck lies at a depth of 55 metres.
SS Arandora Star; SS Athenia (1922) SS Athenia (1903) RMS Atrato (1888) HMS Audacious (1912) B. HMS Bergamot (1917) Britannia (1802 ship) C. ... Wreck of the ...
Fritz-Julius Lemp (19 February 1913 – 9 May 1941) was a captain in the Kriegsmarine during World War II and commander of U-28, U-30 and U-110.. He sank the British passenger liner SS Athenia in September 1939, in violation of the Hague conventions.
In some incidents, U-boats also attacked passenger liners like the SS Athenia. The string of sunken ships earned the U-505 a feared reputation as an underwater predator, ...
News of the sinking of SS Athenia by German submarine U-30 reached Prien the following day, along with further orders to strictly adhere to the Submarine Protocol. The first ship encountered by U-47 during the war was a neutral Greek freighter which Prien inspected but released unharmed. Two further neutral vessels were encountered and Prien ...
The plan is to tug the SS United States along the East Coast and ultimately to Mobile, Alabama, to be stripped and prepped to be sunk. Then the ship’s final home will be under about 180 feet (55 ...
[5] [6] The Athenia was the first ship sunk in World War II; out of 1,400 passengers, 112 of them, including 28 neutral Americans, died. [6] After sinking Athenia, U-30 went on to sink two more vessels, Blairlogie and the SS Fanad Head. [4]