Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Friday, September 1, 1939 @ 1800
The date shown is as timetabled and the time shown is our best estimste 		ATHENIA ( 1923-1939 Passenger and cargo liner 526 feet long of Donaldson Line, Glasgow) Own Page

Donaldson Line'S ATHENIA scheduled to leave Glasgow for Quebec and Montreal (Canada)
Ship's locationGlasgow (Scotland, U.K.)Port of RegistryGlasgow
Sailing forQuebec and Montreal (Canada)Net Tonnage8,118
Gross Tonnage13,465

   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.