Cunard Line's passenger liner LACONIA from the Mediterranean, at New York 2300 April 1

Cunard Line's CARONIA cruising in the Mediterranean, left Naples for Alexandria at midnight April 1

Cunard Line's MAURETANIA on passage from Liverpool for New York, 945 miles east of New York

Cunard Line's MAURETANIA on passage from Liverpool for New York, 945 miles east of New York at midnight April 1

Anchor Line's SCINDIA from Glasgow and Liverpool for Bombay, passed Perim April 2

Cunard Line's passenger liner CARMANIA at Liverpool April 2 from New York

Cunard Line passenger liner IVERNIA on Mediterranean cruise at Venice 0800 April 2

Dominion Line's MANXMAN from Portland (Maine) at Avonmouth April 2

Alfred Holt's Blue Funnel liner ORESTES from Glasgow, at Sydney April 2

Accident to Royal Navy submarine C2 off Harwich

Contributed by “Harwich Andrew”

From a 1914 newspaper cutting.

Accident to Royal Navy submarine C2 off Harwich

   Reports have been received that an alarming accident happened to the Royal Navy submarine C2 off Harwich on Thursday morning.

   The vessel had successfully completed the exercise of attacking the “SUNK  LIGHTVESSEL” off the port and on commencing to come to the surface the submarine’s commanding officer, Lieutenant Shove, found that he was immediately below his Royal Naval parent ship H.M.S. HEBE.

   Lieutenant Shove attempted to manoeuvre between the HEBE and the Lightvessel but the propeller of HEBE caught the submarine, tearing away the periscope and part of the conning tower.

   The impact threw all the 14-man crew of the submarine to the deck, and many of them suffered bruises and abrasions.

   Only the coolness of the submarine’s officers and men averted serious consequences.

Submarine depot ship H.M.S. HEBE attends submarine exercises off Harwich (England)

Contributed by “Harwich Andrew”

From a 1914 newspaper cutting.

Accident to Royal Navy submarine C2 off Harwich

   Reports have been received that an alarming accident happened to the Royal Navy submarine C2 off Harwich on Thursday morning.

   The vessel had successfully completed the exercise of attacking the “SUNK  LIGHTVESSEL” off the port and on commencing to come to the surface the submarine’s commanding officer, Lieutenant Shove, found that he was immediately below his Royal Naval parent ship H.M.S. HEBE.

   Lieutenant Shove attempted to manoeuvre between the HEBE and the Lightvessel but the propeller of HEBE caught the submarine, tearing away the periscope and part of the conning tower.

   The impact threw all the 14-man crew of the submarine to the deck, and many of them suffered bruises and abrasions.

   Only the coolness of the submarine’s officers and men averted serious consequences.

SUNK LIGHTVESSEL off Harwich is unwittingly used as a submarine exercise target

Contributed by “Harwich Andrew”

From a 1914 newspaper cutting.

Accident to Royal Navy submarine C2 off Harwich

   Reports have been received that an alarming accident happened to the Royal Navy submarine C2 off Harwich on Thursday morning.

   The vessel had successfully completed the exercise of attacking the “SUNK  LIGHTVESSEL” off the port and on commencing to come to the surface the submarine’s commanding officer, Lieutenant Shove, found that he was immediately below his Royal Naval parent ship H.M.S. HEBE.

   Lieutenant Shove attempted to manoeuvre between the HEBE and the Lightvessel but the propeller of HEBE caught the submarine, tearing away the periscope and part of the conning tower.

   The impact threw all the 14-man crew of the submarine to the deck, and many of them suffered bruises and abrasions.

   Only the coolness of the submarine’s officers and men averted serious consequences.

Cunard Line's passenger ship ANDANIA was 610 miles east of Halifax on passage to North America

ANDANIA had left Liverpool for Halifax (Nova Scotia), Portland (Maine) and Boston, and at 1100 on 2nd April 1914 reported that she was 610 miles east of Halifax

Hans Hasse adds: ANDANIA had been built at Scott's Shipyard at Greenock in 1913 for Cunard Line and served on their North Atlantic run for one year, until, on the outbreak of World War 1 she was requisitioned by the British Admiralty as a troop transport.

 On 27 January 1918 when she was off Rathlin Island at Northern Ireland she was sighted by the German submarine U-46,and was torpedoed and sunk.

Anchor Line's SCINDIA passes Perim Island at the south entrance of the Red Sea on passage to Bombay

 Perim (also called Mayyun in Arabic), is a volcanic island in the Strait of Mandeb at the south entrance into the Red Sea, off the south-west coast of Yemen and belonging to Yemen.    The island of Perim divides the strait of Mandeb into two channels.    The island was occupied by Great Britain from 1857 to 1967.

Built in 1900 by D & W Henderson Ltd at Glasgow for Anchor Line, Glasgow, SCINDIA was 400.7 feet long x 49.2 feet breadth x 31 feet draught.

SCINDIA served on Anchor Line's North Atlantic and India services, and was sold for demolition in 1927

SARDINIAN at Liverpool April 2 on voyage Glasgow to St, John's (Newfoundland) and Philadelphia

Cunard Line's passenger ship LUSITANIA is 975 miles east of New York on passage to Liverpool

At noon on April 2 1914 Cunard's LUSITANIA was on passage from New York for Liverpool and reported her position as 975 miles east of New York

Hans Hasse adds: LUSITANIA was sunk by a German submarine's torpedo on 7th May 1915 off the Old Head of Kinsale, Southern Ireland, with great loss of life.