The Sinking of the SS Arandora Star – July 2 1940


On the morning of July 2 1940, the Blue Star Line’s SS Arandora Star was transporting some 1200 German and Italian internees and prisoners of war from Britain to internment camps in St. John’s, Newfoundland, having left Liverpool the day before.  She also carried some 375 military guards and crewmen.  She was torpedoed by the German submarine U-47 off the northwest coast of Ireland and sunk 35 minutes later.  Of the nearly 1600 souls on board, fewer than 600 survived… a loss of some 1000 lives

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The wreck of the Arandora Star now lies at 56° 30? N / 10° 38? W – what a beautiful ship she must have been!

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