RMS Lancastria was a British ocean liner requisitioned by the UK Government during the Second World War. She was sunk on 17 June 1940 during Operation...

Captain Rudolph Sharp, who had also commanded another Cunard liner, RMS Lancastria when she was sunk by enemy action, was gaining control over the situation...

Holden also learned that her grandfather Frank Holden was aboard the RMS Lancastria when it was bombed by the Wehrmacht in June 1940 outside the port of...

The RMS Lancastria was a British navy ship sunk in 1940 with the loss of about 4000 lives. Lancastria may also refer to: Lancastria, a British Rail Class...

Anchor Line, which was owned by Cunard Line. She was a sister ship to RMS Lancastria. Although she was launched in December 1919, a strike delayed her final...

as a junior third officer on his second liner, the 16,243-ton liner RMS Lancastria serving under Captain Bisset. By the time the war had started he was...

aboard the Clyde-built cruise liner, later converted to troopship, RMS Lancastria, which was attacked and sunk by German Junkers Ju 88 bombers, mainly...

took part in the rescue of passengers and crew from the bombing of RMS Lancastria in the estuary of the River Loire during Operation Aerial. The ship's...

Kampfgeschwader 30) sank a "10,000 tonne ship" which was the 16,243 GRT liner RMS Lancastria off St Nazaire, killing some 4,000 Allied personnel (nearly doubling...

War convoy escort group commander Captain Johnnie Walker and to the RMS Lancastria. The Chinese Merchant Seamen's Memorial, remembering the Chinese merchant...

much of their equipment. The only major mishap was the sinking of the RMS Lancastria with the loss of perhaps 6,000 men. The last British troops left France...

soldiers acting as guards of the prisoners. Sharp had previously commanded RMS Lancastria, which had been sunk by German bombs on 17 June 1940, off the French...

following month. In the 1920s they were replaced by the 16,297 GRT RMS Cameronia, 16,923 GRT RMS Transylvania, 16,792 GRT SS California (1923), and 16,991 GRT...

and HMS Beagle and the liners Georgic, Duchess of York, Franconia, RMS Lancastria, the Polish ships Batory and Sobieski and several commercial cargo ships...

ultimatum to Latvia and Estonia to surrender. 17 June Sinking of liner RMS Lancastria off St Nazaire while being used as a British troopship— 5000-7000 are...

distance educational courses. In May 1936, he returned to Gallipoli aboard RMS Lancastria and visited war memorials on the peninsula. He retired from academic...

Kampfgeschwader 30—sank a "10,000 tonne ship", the 16,243 GRT liner RMS Lancastria off St Nazaire, killing about 4,000 Allied troops and civilians. This...

while under tow to Gibraltar for salvaging. RMS Lancastria 1920 RMS Tyrrhenia (1920–1924) HMT Lancastria (1940) Bombed by German aircraft, and sank on...

in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison. 1940 – World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At...

listed building. By the south wall of St Katharine's is a memorial to RMS Lancastria, a troopship sunk at sea with huge loss of life during the Second World...

prevented the deaths. News of the loss of over 4,000 lives when UK ship RMS Lancastria was sunk during the war was voluntarily suppressed to prevent it affecting...

Kampfgeschwader 30) destroyed a "10,000 tonne ship", the 16,243 grt ocean liner RMS Lancastria, off Saint-Nazaire, killing some 5,800 Allied personnel. Some 133 Ju...

celebration of the Holy Year. 1200 Scouts sailed from Dublin aboard the liner RMS Lancastria. They were received in audience by Pope Pius XI, who inspected missionary...

its sinking. Over 3,000 people were lost when the converted troopship RMS Lancastria was sunk in June 1940, the greatest maritime disaster in Britain's history...

RMS Niagara was a transpacific steam ocean liner, Royal Mail Ship and refrigerated cargo ship. She was launched in 1912 in Scotland and sunk in 1940 by...

the Battle of Belgium. The missing military personnel lost when the RMS Lancastria was sunk are also commemorated on this memorial. Among the individuals...

which collected the bodies of the people not rescued by Californian) RMS Lancastria (greatest loss of life in British maritime history) HMS Repulse (1916)...

Luftwaffe attacked the evacuation ships and on 17 June, sank the troopship RMS Lancastria in the Loire estuary. About 2,477 passengers and crew were saved but...

17 June — A Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 bomber sinks the British ship RMS Lancastria, which was evacuating troops from near Saint-Nazaire, France, killing...

Saint-Nazaire was fairly uneventful; on the same day, Luftwaffe aircraft sank RMS Lancastria at the port killing several thousand people. Arandora Star's next trip...