SS Arandora Star
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 transporting Italian and German civilians among a small number of 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.
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SS Arandora Star
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 transporting Italian and German civilians among a small number of 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.
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Arandora Star fu una nave da c ...... la perdita di 865 vite umane.
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Le SS Arandora, rebaptisé en 1 ...... vent la mort dans le naufrage.
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SS Arandora Star – brytyjski s ...... rejsu z Liverpoolu do Kanady.
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SS Arandora Star, originally S ...... arge loss of life, 805 people.
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アランドラ・スター(英語: Arandora Star)は、 ...... 2日にドイツ潜水艦の雷撃で沈没、800人以上の死者を出した。
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1927-01-04
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Torpedoed and sunk 2 July 1940
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Cammell Laird & Co, Birkenhead
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*Passengers:
*as built: 164 − 1st Class
*as a cruise liner: 354 − 1st Class
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Ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship ; cruise liner ; troop ship
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May 1927
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1927-01-04
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Arandora
Arandora Star
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"The Wedding Cake" or the "Chocolate Box", due to her paint scheme.
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four steam turbines, single reduction geared onto two propeller shafts
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London
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London − South America
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Arandora Star fu una nave da c ...... la perdita di 865 vite umane.
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Le SS Arandora, rebaptisé en 1 ...... vent la mort dans le naufrage.
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SS Arandora Star – brytyjski s ...... rejsu z Liverpoolu do Kanady.
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SS Arandora Star, originally S ...... arge loss of life, 805 people.
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アランドラ・スター(英語: Arandora Star)は、 ...... 2日にドイツ潜水艦の雷撃で沈没、800人以上の死者を出した。
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