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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 .
Athenia was built in 1903, for the Donaldson line [1] [2] Originally built for the Clyde-Canada service as 7,835 gross register tons, length 478ft x beam 56ft, one funnel, four masts, twin screw, speed 14 knots, accommodation was for 12-1st class passengers. Launched on 20 October 1903 by her shipbuilder, Vickers, Sons & Maxim for Donaldson ...
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 ...
Athenia United Kingdom: 3 September 1939: A cruise ship that was torpedoed by U-30 about 52 nmi (97 km) south of Rockall: Atlas Netherlands: 10 January 1918: A steamer that was sunk by U-156 25 miles (40 km) from Fuerreventura Island in the Canary Islands. [6
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 ...
Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck. Researchers date the find to either the fifth or sixth century B.C.
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