SS Arandora Star, originally SS Arandora, was a British passenger ship of the Blue Star Line. She was built in 1927 as an ocean liner and refrigerated...
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Franz Stampfl (section Attack on the Arandora Star)
morning in 1940, Stampfl was on his way to Canada on the liner ship SS Arandora Star with a host of other prisoners of war. In the middle of the North Sea...
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Cammell Laird of Birkenhead built three sister ships: Almeda, Andalucia and Arandora. John Brown & Company of Clydebank built two: Avelona and Avila. The quintet...
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sisters were renamed Almeda Star, Andalucia Star and Arandora Star. In 1935 Blue Star Line had Almeda Star and Andalucia Star lengthened by 66.7 ft (20...
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Second World War. In January 1940 the UK Admiralty had the ocean liner Arandora Star fitted out with steel booms at Avonmouth and then ordered her to Portsmouth...
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Brisbane Star was a British refrigerated cargo liner. She was built by Cammell Laird and Co in 1936–37 as one of Blue Star Line's Imperial Star-class ships...
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Empire Toucan on the 29th, Georgios Kyriakides on the 30th, and SS Arandora Star on 2 July. The submarine returned to Kiel on 6 July after 34 days at...
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Welsh Italians lost their lives in the sinking of the passenger ship Arandora Star in 1940. A memorial was placed in Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral in...
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transportations, a tragedy occurred: the sinking of the ocean liner Arandora Star on 2 July 1940 resulted in the loss of over 700 lives, including 446...
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Casanova di Bardi) Chapel dedicated to San Siro Memorial Chapel of the Arandora Star (20th century) River Ceno Frazione Gravago di Bardi - There is a castle...
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to his rest". List of Japanese hell ships Slave ship Prison ship SS Arandora Star RMS Nova Scotia — a British liner sunk in November 1942 while carrying...
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However, largely in response to the torpedoing of the transport ship, Arandora Star (and the loss of 805 lives, including the Captain, 12 of his officers...
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were also efforts to move internees to Canada. In July 1940, the SS Arandora Star was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sunk while transporting Italian...
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Dunedin Star was a British refrigerated cargo liner. She was built by Cammell Laird and Co in 1935–36 as one of Blue Star Line's Imperial Star-class ships...
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maritime incidents in July 1940 Shipwrecks 1 Jul: Clearton, U-102 2 Jul: Arandora Star, U-26 3 Jul: Bretagne, Mistral, Mogador, Provence 4 Jul: Rigault de...
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maritime incidents in July 1940 Shipwrecks 1 Jul: Clearton, U-102 2 Jul: Arandora Star, U-26 3 Jul: Bretagne, Mistral, Mogador, Provence 4 Jul: Rigault de...
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Scillin". Storie di uomini di navi (in Italian). Trento in Cina. "SS Arandora Star". Colonsay. Archived from the original on 7 July 2010. Retrieved 4 December...
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446 Italians who drowned when the ship carrying them to Canada, the Arandora Star, was sunk by a German U-boat. Paolozzi studied at the Edinburgh College...
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being shipped from Britain to Canada for internment when their ship, SS Arandora Star was torpedoed by a German U-boat, U-47, off Tory Island, County Donegal...
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worst mass loss of life of any foreign based Italian community when the Arandora Star, a cruise liner carrying interned Italian men, Jews escaping from the...
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another six ships sunk. The most notable victim was the passenger liner Arandora Star, sunk west of the Aran Islands. The 14-year old ship sank with heavy...
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Garden has been created with a dramatic modern monument to recall the Arandora Star disaster in 1940. In 2004, he accused the BBC of "rudeness and prejudice"...
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maritime incidents in July 1940 Shipwrecks 1 Jul: Clearton, U-102 2 Jul: Arandora Star, U-26 3 Jul: Bretagne, Mistral, Mogador, Provence 4 Jul: Rigault de...
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August 19, 1915 HMT Aragon 1905 Sunk by torpedo on 30 December 1917 SS Arandora Star 1927 Torpedoed and sunk on July 2, 1940 SS Arcadia 1953 Scrapped at...
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progress was inaccurate, mainly being rumour. The ships, including the Arandora Star, Strathaird and Otranto rescued 28,145 British and 4,439 Allied personnel...
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Aerial. Arandora Star got out of Saint-Jean-de-Luz just in time before a Luftwaffe bomber attack on the town and port began. Ettrick and Arandora Star sailed...
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suspects. However, following the loss at sea on 2 July 1940 of the SS Arandora Star, carrying German and Italian internees to Canada, the impracticalities...
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maritime incidents in July 1940 Shipwrecks 1 Jul: Clearton, U-102 2 Jul: Arandora Star, U-26 3 Jul: Bretagne, Mistral, Mogador, Provence 4 Jul: Rigault de...
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maritime incidents in July 1940 Shipwrecks 1 Jul: Clearton, U-102 2 Jul: Arandora Star, U-26 3 Jul: Bretagne, Mistral, Mogador, Provence 4 Jul: Rigault de...
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Canada and Australia (see HMT Dunera). The fast, unescorted liner, SS Arandora Star was sunk by German submarine U-47 on 2 July 1940. Many of her 1213 German...
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