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 cargo ship, converted in 1929 into a cruise ship and requisitioned as a troopship in the Second World War .

By reason of her exclusive pre-war employment as a cruising liner, the Arandora Star was probably one of the best-known ships in the world. Built by Messrs. Cammell Laird of Birkenhead and completed in 1927 more or less as a sister ship to the Almeda , Andalucia , Avelona and Avila for the fast passenger and refrigerated cargo service to South ...

At 6.45 am on 2 July the 15,500-ton Arandora Star was torpedoed by the U47 about 75 miles west of County Donegal on the north west coast of Ireland and sank within an hour. It is believed that the U-boat crew mistook her grey wartime livery for that of an armed merchant ship. There were more than 1,600 people on board.

2010年1月18日 · Arandora Star began her Atlantic crossing during what U-boat crews called ‘The Happy Time’, when U-boats sank Allied ships with impunity off the Irish coast. Sailing without escort through the North Channel and past Malin Head at cruise speed of 15 knots, painted battleship grey and with her upper decks and twelve lifeboats festooned with ...

2020年4月30日 · By today’s cruise ship standards the SS Arandora Star was tiny, with a gross weight of 14,694 tons. By contrast, the Symphony of the Seas checks in at 228,081 tons. The vessel was built by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead, England in 1927 as a part-refrigerated cargo and part-passenger ship.

2010年7月1日 · A ship called the Arandora Star was sunk off the coast of Ireland. It was carrying Italians and Germans who had been arrested after the outbreak of war.

At 07.58 hours on 2 July 1940 the unescorted Arandora Star (Master Edgar Wallace Moulton) was hit by one torpedo from U-47 about 125 miles west by north of Malin Head, Co. Donegal and foundered later in 56°30N/10°38W. The ship had 479 German internees, 734 Italian internees, 86 German prisoners-of-war and 200 military guards on board.

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 cargo ship, converted in 1929 into a cruise ship and requisitioned as a troopship in the Second World War.

On 1st of September 1939, the day that Germany invaded Poland, S.S. ARANDORA STAR sailed from the UK for New York, carrying citizens of the USA anxious to return home before the onset of the war in Europe.

SS Arandora Star was a British passenger ship of the Blue Star Line. She was built in 1927 as an ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship, converted in 1929 into a cruise ship and requisitioned as a troop ship in the Second World War. At the end of June 1940 she was assigned the task of transporting German and Italian internees and prisoners of ...