Arandora Star

Place Name	Arandora Star
Place Type	Physical
Locational Certainty	1. High confidence
Short Description	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. At the end of June 1940 she was assigned the task of deporting interned Anglo-Italian and Anglo-German civilians as well as a small number of legitimate prisoners of war to Canada. On 2 July 1940 she was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland with a large loss of life, 805 people. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Arandora_Star)
U R Ls	https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/stories/the-loss-of-ss-arandora-star/
Start Date For Named Place	1927
End Date For Named Place	1940
Linked From	Scola, Giorgio Enrico

Place Name

Arandora Star

Place Type

Physical

Locational Certainty

1. High confidence

Short Description

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. At the end of June 1940 she was assigned the task of deporting interned Anglo-Italian and Anglo-German civilians as well as a small number of legitimate prisoners of war to Canada. On 2 July 1940 she was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland with a large loss of life, 805 people. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Arandora_Star)

U R Ls

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/stories/the-loss-of-ss-arandora-star/

Start Date For Named Place

1927

End Date For Named Place

1940

Linked From

Scola, Giorgio Enrico

Entity

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