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Subject: [TSL] ANDANIA
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 00:12:56 -0800

Mark,
I went looking for Information on the ANDANIA by using my Yahoo and
found this:

Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 11:50:10 -0400
Reply-To: Marine History Information Exchange Group
Sender: Marine History Information Exchange Group
From: Robert Schwemmer
Subject: ANDANIA (145934)

More on Johathan Perkins request for information on the HMS ANDIA or
possibly
the AMC ANDANIA (145934)

ANDANIA
Last owner: Cunard White Star Line; Built: 1922 by Hawthorn Leslie;
Gross:
13,950 tons; 520.0 x 65.3 x 39.2; 1,660 nominal horsepower.; 15 knots;
turbine engines. The Cunard White Star liner ANDANIA, Capt. D. K. Bain,
was
taken over by the Admiralty early in the second World War for service as
an
auxiliary cruiser. On June 16th, 1940 when S.E. of Iceland she was
torpedoed
by a German submarine. She did not sink immediately and her crew were
taken
off in safety with only two men injured. (Reference: Dictionary of
Disasters
at Sea During the Age of Steam, Including Sailing Ships and Ships of War
Lost
in Action 1824-1962 by Charles Hocking, Vol. I - A to L, Page 31)

ANDANIA
North Sea -- Atlantic, June 16, 1940, 0027 hours, German U-boat UA
(built for
Turkey), Under the command of Hans Cohausz, Position AE 8287, Attacked
Armed
Merchant Cruiser 14,000 + displacement with torpedo United Kingdom Armed
Merchant Cruiser ANDANIA, Actual Tonnage 13950+ , Lat./Long. 62.36 N /
15.09
W. (Reference: Axis Submarine Successes 1939-1945 by Jurgen Rohwer, Page
19)

ANDANIA
Official # 145934, Steel hull, Twin Screw, 2 decks, Built 1922 by
Hawthorn
Leslie & Co. Ld., Newcastle, Home port Liverpool, Flag British, Powered
by 4
steam turbines (Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1939/40)

Robert Schwemmer

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