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Blue Star Line cruise ship SS 'Arandora Star', Norway, c1927-c1939.
Blue Star Line cruise ship SS 'Arandora Star', Norway, c1927-c1939. The 'Arandora Star' entered service with the Blue Star Line in 1927. Norway was one of her regular destinations. She was requisitioned after World War II broke out, and on 1 July 1940 sailed from Liverpool carrying Italian internees and prisoners of war to Newfoundland, as well as British soldiers to guard them. The following day, the 'Andora Star' was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-47 commanded by Commander Gunther Prien, with the loss of over 800 lives.
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5088px × 3458px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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1920s
1930s
20th century
2nd world war
Arandora Star
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
Blue Star Line
Britain
British
coast
concept
country
CRUISE
CRUISE SHIP
Disaster
geographical feature
Geography
holiday
Holidays
Industry
LOCATION
Monochrome
mountain
MOUNTAINS
Norway
Norwegian
PASSENGER SHIP
Photograph
Print Collector21
SCANDINAVIA
Scandinavian
Seascape
SECOND WORLD WAR
Ship
shipping Industry
shipping line
SHIPS
TGN
The Print Collector
THIRTIES
transport
TRANSPORTATION
Travel
Twenties
Wars
water transport
WORLD WAR 2
World War II
WORLD WAR TWO
WW2