Ship EventThursday, April 2, 1914 @ 1100 |
ANDANIA (1913-1914 Passenger liner 540 feet long of Cunard Line, Liverpool) |
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Cunard Line's passenger ship ANDANIA was 610 miles east of Halifax on passage to North America |
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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. |
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