ANDANIA had been built at Scott's Shipyard at Greenock in 1913 for Cunard Line and served on their North Atlantic run for one year, until, on the outbreak of World War 1 she was requisitioned by the British Admiralty as a troop transport. . On 27 January 1918 when she was off Rathlin Island at Northern Ireland she was sighted by the German submarine U-46,and was torpedoed and sunk.