Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Thursday, April 2, 1914 @ 2200
FRANCONIA (1911-1915 Passenger liner 625 feet long of Cunard Line, Liverpool : 1915-1916 Troopship of U.K. Government : 1916 torpedoed and sunk off Fastnet (Ireland) with loss of 12 lives) Own Page

Cunard Line's passenger ship FRANCONIA from Mediterranean cruise is 911 miles east of New York

Ship's locationNorth Atlantic ocean 911 miles east of New YorkPort of RegistryLiverpool (England, U.K.)
Gross Tonnage18,150

FRANCONIA was on a Mediterranean cruise and bound for New York, and at 2200 on 2nd April was 911 miles east of New York.

Hans Hasse adds:
FRANCONIA was sunk in 1916