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Illustration of the sinking by Norman Wilkinson The fishing boat Wanderer near the Lusitania as she sank. U-20 surfaced again at 12:45 as visibility was now excellent. At 13:20, something was sighted and Schwieger was summoned to the conning tower: at first it appeared to be several ships because of the number of funnels and masts, but this ...
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner launched by the Cunard Line in 1906. She was the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her sister Mauretania three months later and was awarded the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908.
RMS Augusta (Possibly based on the RMS Campania and RMS Empress of Ireland, But with interiors based on the RMS Lusitania, RMS Mauretania and HMS Hawke) – ocean liner, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 2016; HMS Avenger – Billy Budd, 1962; HMS Ballantrae – British Royal Navy Town-class destroyer in Gift Horse, 1952
HMS Wanderer (D74/I74) was an Admiralty modified W class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was the seventh RN ship to carry the name Wanderer . She was ordered in January 1918 to be built at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company , Govan in Glasgow , being launched in May 1919.
SS Oronsay was the second Orient Line ship built after World War II.A sister ship to Orcades, she was named after the island of Oronsay off the west coast of Scotland. [2]The liner was completed in 1951 at Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness, but was delivered several months behind schedule because of a serious fire that broke out in the fitting-out berth.
HMS Wanderer was a Cormorant-class ship-sloop launched in 1806 for the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy sold her in 1817. The Royal Navy sold her in 1817. She made one voyage between 1817 and 1820 as a whaler in the British southern whale fishery .
Contemporary records, including the Lloyd's yacht registers from 1900 to 1904 and The Mercantile Navy List and Maritime Directories of the same period, [12] confirm that Sealark was built by Robert Steele and Co. in 1878 as Wanderer, and the registered owners between 1900 and 1903 were Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley and the Earl of ...
Walker made an unsuccessful counterattack against the German submarine U-47 on 2 July 1940 after the U-boat torpedoed and sank the passenger ship RMS Andora Star while Andora Star was carrying German and Italian prisoners of war to Canada with 1,676 people on board. The destroyer then returned to the United Kingdom and underwent repairs that ...