The Arandora Star tragedy, 2 July 1940.

- arandorastar.online

The Arandora Star was a converted cruise ship carrying around 1500 Italian, Austrian and German internees and ‘enemy aliens’ to Canada when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland on the 2nd of July 1940. Over 800 people lost their lives, the majority of whom were Italians.

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