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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 .
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 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 ...
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October 5 – Announcement of presumed location of wreck of ocean liner SS Athenia, the first British civilian casualty of World War II, on Rockall Bank. [ 21 ] November 3 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of a 1400 year-old Byzantine sarcophagus with Greek inscriptions on the cover saying "Blessed Kandes sleeps here" in the antique ...
The wreck remains on the bottom of the harbor as a memorial to all those who died that day. 1,177 Navy 1944 Japan: Rakuyo Maru – On 12 September the Japanese troopship, while part of Convoy HI-72 and transporting 1,317 Australian and British POWs from Singapore, was torpedoed and sunk in the Luzon Strait by USS Sealion. 1,159 POWs were killed.
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 ...
List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1917 Ship State Description Aube United Kingdom World War I: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Bay of Biscay 3.5 nautical miles (6.5 km) north west of the Île d'Yeu, Vendée, France by SM UC-71 ( Imperial German Navy) with the loss of one of her 30