Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

September 1939 sailing schedule of Donaldson Line of Glasgow : 2 days before UK at war with Germany

   This sailing schedule was published on 1 September 1939, only two days before UK declared war with Germany and thus started the Second World War.

   ATHENIA, at the top of the schedule, was sunk by torpedo from a German submarine on 3 September and was the first British ship to be sunk in the War.