Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Friday, September 15, 1939 @ 1700
The date shown is as timetabled and the time shown is our best estimste 		GRACIA (1921-1941 General cargo ship of Donaldson Line, Glasgow : 1941 bombed and sunk in Atlantic) Own Page

Donaldson Line'S GRACIA closes at Glasgow for receiving cargo for Pacific Coast of North America
Ship's locationGlasgow (Scotland, U.K.)Port of RegistryGlasgow (Scotland, UK)
Sailing forLos Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Victoria and VancouverGross Tonnage5,642

   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.