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SS Arandora Star
SS Arandora Star was a British registered cruise ship operated by the Blue Star Line from the late 1920s through the 1930s. At the onset of World War II she was assigned as a troop transport and moving refugees. At the end of June 1940 she was assigned the task of transporting German and Italian internees along with prisoners of war to Canada. On 2 July 1940 she was sunk in controversial circumstances by a German U-boat with a large loss of life.
for ss ARANDORA STAR and other ships of evacuation convoy Group II
during passage
to UK.1
Four ships left for Canada including the SS Arandora Star which was
sunk by a U-boat with the loss of 175 Germans and 486 Italians.2
Photo: The SS Arandora Star at anchor.3
SS Arandora Star bibliography - Scottish islands of Colonsay ...
SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND FURTHER READING.4
SS Arandora star sunk off the irish coast in 1941 torpedoed by U47
captained by gunther prien who earlier in the war sunk the battleship
HMS royal oak.5
SS Arandora Star, a converted cruise liner, sailed from Liverpool for
Canada with 1,864 people on board.6
that was halted when a German U boat sank the SS Arandora Star in July
1940, with the loss of 800 internees, though this was not the first
loss that had occurred.7
Builder of the SS Arandora Star is Cammell Laird.
the Liverpool liner SS Arandora Star, on which the man died with 800
others when she was sunk on July 2, 1940.8
The sinking of the steamship SS Arandora Star on 2 July 1940 resulted
in the loss of over 700 lives—including 446 British-Italians being
deported as undesirable.9
to Canada killed when the SS Arandora Star was torpedoed.10
transferred to a cam in Canada on the SS Arandora Star when it was
torpedoed and sunk on the 2nd July 1940.11
transported to Canada died when the SS Arandora Star was sunk by a
German U Boat.12
The SS Arandora Star Memorial in the foyer
marks the death of some 800 London internees on their way to Canada
when their ship was torpedoed in 1940.13
Ship Name
Arandora Star
Owner
Ship Tonnage
as built:* 12
847 gross tons* 7
815 netafter refit:* 14
694 gross tons* 8
578 net
Ship Power
four steam turbines by shipbuilder
Ship Length
512.2
Ship Speed
16
Ship Fate
--07-02
Ship Capacity
1.0
Status
Ship Refit
1929
1936
Ship Completed
May 1927
Ship Height
* 34.0 ftafter refit
Ship Launched
1
Ship Beam
68.3
Ship Launch
1927-04-01
Builder
Ship Propulsion
single reduction geared to two shafts
Nick
The Wedding Cake or the Chocolate Box due to its paint scheme.
Ship Class
Ship Route
As a cruising liner she made voyages to Norway
Northern capitals
the Mediterranean and the West Indies among others.
Great Britain - South America
Ship Yard Number
921
Ship Nickname
The Wedding Cake or the Chocolate Box due to its paint scheme.
Category