It was relocated to the Pier Head in front of the old Mersey Docks and Harbour Board building after building work was finished. Photographs of the lifeboat remains in 1969, as well as an eyewitness account by a Ms. Bella MacLennanin can be found in the citation. Gen Aronda went to school in Kitgum High School. There she found Bayonne under Luftwaffe attack, but assisted by a destroyer, she picked up about 500 people who were in an overloaded small craft adrift off the beach. The ship listed further to starboard. Can anyone help?? Burfeind stayed aboard Arandora Star organizing her evacuation until she sank and he was lost. [citation needed]. At 7:15, Captain Moulton and his senior officers walked over the side into the rising water, leaving behind many Italians who were still afraid to leave the ship. Chief officer Frederick Brown gave the ship's position to the radio officer, who transmitted a distress signal. Escorted ss VOLENDAM during passage to Mombasa from WS21. There is also a Via Arandora Star in Parma. [23], On 2 July 2010, the 70th anniversary of the sinking, a new memorial was unveiled in St David's Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral, Cardiff by the Arandora Star Memorial Fund in Wales. She embarked roughly 1,700 troops and refugees, including the Polish staff, and left just in time as Luftwaffe aircraft approached to bomb the town. A major refit in 1929 reduced her cargo space and increased her passenger accommodation to turn her into a cruise ship. [24], On the same day, 2 July 2010, a memorial cloister garden was opened next to St Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Glasgow. On 2 July 1940 she was sunk in controversial circumstances by a German U-boat with a large loss of life, 805 people. Archbishop Mario Conti said at the time he hoped the monument would be a "fitting symbol" of the friendship between Scotland and Italy. Four others were found on the same day. 1860 acquired from Bay of Bengal SS Co., Calcutta, 1868 transferred to Wm Denny (shipbuilders) in part exchange for new ship. Captain Moulton was posthumously awarded Lloyd's War Medal for Bravery at Sea. Some lifeboats were overloaded by prisoners descending the falls and side ladders, but many of the Italians were afraid to leave the ship. She was built in 1927 as an ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship, converted in 1929 into a cruise ship and requisitioned as a troopship in the Second World War. Commemorazione vittime Arandora Star", "Bardi ricorda affondamento Arandora Star – 2 luglio 1940", "S.S. "ARANDORA STAR" 1. [3] Cruises included Norway, the Northern capitals, the Mediterranean, the West Indies, Panama, Cuba, and Florida. [18][19] A street in Bardi was renamed Via Arandora Star. I think that this is indeed British India's ARONDA, ordered 1937. [5], At the end of September, the Admiralty assessed the ship at Dartmouth, Devon and decided she was unsuitable for conversion to an armed merchant cruiser. [citation needed]. Sources disagree as to whether the ship left Liverpool on 30 June, or at 4 h on 2 July 1940. On 14 June, the ship left Glasgow en route for Brest, in Brittany, to rescue troops and refugees. Arandora Star's next trip to France was to the southwest, near the border with Spain. ZIBENGALA SS,BI.with paddle tug, 1899-1910. [20], St Peter's Italian Church in Clerkenwell, London, unveiled a wall memorial in 1960, and added a second memorial to London victims in 2012.[21]. [5] Arandora Star's trip to Saint-Nazaire was fairly uneventful; the same day, Luftwaffe aircraft sank RMS Lancastria at the port killing several thousand people. Her turbines, main generators and emergency generators were all immediately put out of action and therefore knocked out all lights and communications aboard.[10]. 5,328: Gracchus: 1902 Others injured themselves by landing on drifting wreckage and floating debris near the sinking ship". [10] Her Master was Captain Edgar Wallace Moulton. She sailed unescorted to Harstad, where she embarked 1,600 personnel; most of them members of the Royal Air Force in addition to some French and Polish troops. 599: Gozaria: 1918: ex- War Pike, 1918 intended to be renamed Gozaria by B.I.but cargo exploded at Novotossisk, towed to sea and sunk by gunfire. Arandora Star escaped with the aid of a destroyer, which provided anti-aircraft cover and came under heavy air attack. A memorial was unveiled on Colonsay on 2 July 2005, the 65th anniversary of the tragedy, at the cliff where the body of Giuseppe Delgrosso was found.[22]. An unidentified sailor, unrecognisable other than for a tattoo bearing the name "Chrissie", was washed ashore near Newhouse, on the Atlantic coast of Kintyre, Argyll and, after official investigation, buried at the local churchyard of Killean, Kintyre, Argyll. As Arandora she sailed from London to the east coast of South America from 1927 to 1928. [4], When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, Arandora Star was en route from Cherbourg to New York. The renaming was done to avoid confusion with Royal Mail Ships which typically bore names beginning and ending in "A". [26] A 2006 picture shows the build up of sand over time. Aronda is a village in the Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra state, India. She then went to Quiberon Bay, on the Bay of Biscay, where she evacuated about 300 people from Saint-Nazaire on 17 June. [12] 805 people were killed, including Captain Moulton, 12 of his officers, 42 of his crew and 37 of the military guards. She took her evacuees to Liverpool.[9]. These she took to Falmouth, before returning to the same area. This is a photo of a, I think a British ship in convoy from Durban to Mombasa, and to Bombay in July 1942. ARONDA Type: Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship Launched: 05/08/1940 Completed: 17/03/1941 Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker Yard Number: 1640 Dimensions: 9031grt, 3967nrt, 444.6 x 61.2 x 25.2ft Engines: 6 x Steam turbines, 2 x (HP, IP & LP), 2155nhp Engines by: Proudly sponsored by Sydney Heritage Fleet Wharf 7, 58 Pirrama Road PYRMONT NSW 2009 Australia Phone: 02 9298 3888 Fax: 02 9298 3839 Sydney Heritage Fleet [27], Coordinates: 55°20′N 10°33′W / 55.333°N 10.550°W / 55.333; -10.550, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, St David's Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral, Cardiff, St Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Glasgow, List by death toll of ships sunk by submarines, "Kilvickeon (Cragaig) cemetery, Kilninian and Kilmore, Isle of Ulva", "Bardi. In 2004 the Italian town of Lucca unveiled a monument to 31 local men lost in the sinking, located in the courtyard of the museum of the Paolo Cresci Foundation for the History of Italian Emigration. This page was last edited on 5 August 2020, at 08:24. On 30 July, the first body was found; 71-year-old Ernesto Moruzzi, who was found at Cloughglass, Burtonport. She was then sent to Liverpool for orders.[7]. At the end of June 1940 she was assigned the task of transporting Italian and German civilians among a small number of prisoners of war to Canada. [13], "I could see hundreds of men clinging to the ship. Thank you gentlemen, I am sure you are correct and have listed her as such. In 1929 she was sent to Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited of Glasgow for refitting. On tests the system was successful at catching torpedoes and reduced Arandora Star's speed by only 1 knot (1.85 km/h). In March 1940, the ship was sent to Devonport where the equipment was removed. Sources disagree whether she took these to Falmouth[8] or Plymouth. On 3 July, the UK War Cabinet received a report on the disaster. [citation needed] One other lifeboat was swamped and sank shortly after being launched. The body of EG Lane from Kingsteignton, Newton Abbot, Devon, England, a private in the Devonshire Regiment, was washed onto the beach near Ballycastle, County Mayo and is buried in the local cemetery. [citation needed], As a cruise ship Arandora Star was based mainly in Southampton, and voyaged to many different destinations, calling in some instances at home ports such as Immingham. She had a service speed of 16 knots (30 km/h). At the foot of the photo not shown it says a lone ship 40 miles ahead was sunk by Japanese carrier borne aircraft In the same writings the ship is id'd as the SS Orunda or Gorunda The photo is quite small but the ship appears to be flying the red duster, I wondered if she was B&I. In the small graveyard of Termoncarragh, Belmullet, County Mayo, Luigi Tapparo, an internee from Edinburgh, and John Connelly, a Lovat Scout, lie buried side by side. [citation needed] The crew successfully launched the remaining 10 lifeboats and more than half the liferafts. Arandora Star also had two unique nicknames because of her colour scheme of a white hull with scarlet ribbon. During August 1940, 213 bodies washed up on the Irish coast, of which 35 were from Arandora Star and a further 92 unidentified, potentially from the ship.[16]. At 9:30, an RAF Coastal Command Short Sunderland flying boat flew over and dropped watertight bags containing first aid kits, food, cigarettes, and a message that help was coming. She entered Saint-Jean-de-Luz, where some Polish troops were trapped. SS Arandora Star, originally SS Arandora, was a British passenger ship of the Blue Star Line. The torpedo destroyed one starboard lifeboat and disabled the davits and falls of another. Prien believed the torpedo to be faulty,[11] but it detonated against Arandora Star's starboard side, flooding her aft engine room. From a service book on the body, Garda Sergeant Burns identified 27-year-old Frank Carter from Kilburn, London, a trooper in the Royal Dragoons. In the refit, her gross tonnage was increased to 14,694 and first class accommodation was increased to 354 passengers. In 2009, the 69th anniversary of the sinking, the Mayor of Middlesbrough unveiled a memorial in the town hall commemorating the town's 13 interned Italians held in cells there prior to deportation and death on the Arandora Star's final voyage. Belmullet gardaí received a call from Annagh Head that another body had been found.
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