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) - 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) - 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) -

Citation: [Posted to The ShipsList by Robert Schwemmer - 1 April 1998]

Dania

The steamship DANIA (I) was build by AG "Vulcan", Stettin (Ship #189), for the HAPAG (the Hamburg-America Line), and launched on 12 October 1889. 4,076 tons; 112,98 x 13,50 meters (length x breadth); straight bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; steel construction, screw propulsion, triple-expansion engines, service speed 14 knots; accommodation for 30 passengers in 1st class and 1,400 in steerage; crew of 78. 16 December 1889, maiden voyage, Hamburg-Havre-New York. 20 October 1895, last voyage, Hamburg-New York. 1895, MONTSERRAT (Cia Trasatlantica, Barcelona). 1896, returned to HAPAG under her original name. 1897, returned to Cia Trasatlantica under the name MONTSERRAT; accommodation for 121 passengers in 1st class, 36 in 2nd class, and 1,000 in steerage. 26 June 1900, first voyage, Barcelona-Malaga-Cadiz-New York-Havana. 30 November 1920, sunk in New York harbor after colliding with the American steamship SAN MARCOS; later raised and repaired. 27 June 1924, last voyage, Vera Cruz-Havana-New York-Cadiz-Barcelona. 1926 sold for scrapping; 1927, scrapped at Genoa [Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, Die Schiffe der Hamburg-Amerika-Linie, Bd. 1: 1847-1906 (Herford: Koehler, 1979), pp. 48-49 (photograph); Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 1 (1975), p. 396].-

Citation: [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 8 August 1998]