Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship Event

Friday, September 8, 1939 @ 1700
The date shown is as timetabled and the time shown is our best estimste 		CORTONA (1921-1942 Refrigerated cargo ship of Donaldson Line, Glasgow : 1942 torpedoed and sunk in Atlantic) Own Page

Donaldson Line'S CORTONA closes at Glasgow for receiving cargo for Buenos Aires and Montevideo
Ship's locationGlasgow (Scotland, U.K.)Port of RegistryGlasgow (Scotland, UK)
Sailing forBuenos Aires (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay)Gross Tonnage7,093

   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.