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 		SULAIRIA (1929-1940 General cargo ship of Donaldson Line, Glasgow : 1940 torpedoed and sunk off Ireland) Own Page

Donaldson Line'S SULAIRIA scheduled to leave Glasgow for Quebec and Montreal (Canada)
Ship's locationGlasgow (Scotland, U.K.)Port of RegistryGlasgow (Scotland, UK)
Sailing forQuebec and Montreal (Canada)Gross Tonnage3,580

   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.