Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Saturday, September 9, 1939 @ 1800
The date shown is as timetabled and the time shown is our best estimste 		ANDANIA (1922-1939 Passenger / cargo liner of Cunard Line, Liverpool : 1939-1940 Armed Merchant Cruiser : 1940 torpedoed and sunk off Reykjavik, Iceland) Own Page

Cunard Line'S ANDANIA scheduled to leave Glasgow for Quebec and Montreal (Canada)
Ship's locationGlasgow (Scotland, U.K.)Port of RegistryLiverpool (England, UK)
Sailing forQuebec and Montreal (Canada)Gross Tonnage13,950

   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.