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... 38 KB (4,353 words) - 11:07, 7 March 2024 |
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... 42 KB (3,065 words) - 22:30, 29 April 2024 |
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... 430 bytes (77 words) - 13:52, 3 August 2021 |
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... 21 KB (2,400 words) - 14:19, 23 April 2024 |
Saint-Nazaire (section Sinking of the Lancastria) aboard the Clyde-built cruise liner, later converted to troopship, RMS Lancastria, which was attacked and sunk by German Junkers Ju 88 bombers, mainly... 37 KB (4,732 words) - 19:18, 8 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (477 words) - 11:34, 25 May 2022 |
Laconia incident (category RMS Laconia (1921)) 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... 37 KB (4,867 words) - 12:35, 30 March 2024 |
Operation Aerial (section Lancastria) and HMS Beagle and the liners Georgic, Duchess of York, Franconia, RMS Lancastria, the Polish ships Batory and Sobieski and several commercial cargo ships... 56 KB (7,475 words) - 03:57, 5 March 2024 |
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... 170 KB (22,598 words) - 23:44, 3 April 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,383 words) - 14:59, 13 February 2024 |
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... 49 KB (5,072 words) - 10:57, 29 February 2024 |
while under tow to Gibraltar for salvaging. RMS Lancastria 1920 RMS Tyrrhenia (1920–1924) HMT Lancastria (1940) Bombed by German aircraft, and sank on... 75 KB (184 words) - 12:55, 17 April 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,265 words) - 15:23, 3 November 2023 |
Maritime history of Scotland (section RMS Lusitania) which collected the bodies of the people not rescued by Californian) RMS Lancastria (greatest loss of life in British maritime history) HMS Repulse (1916)... 7 KB (896 words) - 15:38, 24 February 2023 |
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... 79 KB (8,689 words) - 19:12, 22 April 2024 |
17 June — A Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 bomber sinks the British ship RMS Lancastria, which was evacuating troops from near Saint-Nazaire, France, killing... 19 KB (1,995 words) - 09:16, 9 April 2024 |
France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation. RMS Lancastria, serving as a troopship, is bombed and sunk by Luftwaffe Junkers Ju... 108 KB (11,786 words) - 17:11, 20 April 2024 |