SS Arandora Star
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SS Arandora Star, originally SS Arandora, was a British passenger ship of the Blue Star Line. 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. At the end of June 1940 she was assigned the task of deporting interned Anglo-Italian and Anglo-German civilians as well as a small number of legitimate prisoners of war to Canada. On 2 July 1940 she was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland with a large loss of life, 805 people.
Arandora Star as a troop ship in 1940
Otto Burfeind
HMCS St. Laurent rescued 868 survivors from Arandora Star
Grave of a Arandora Star victim who was washed up in County Donegal
Blue Star Line
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The Blue Star Line was a British passenger and cargo shipping company formed in 1911, being in operation until 1998.
Trojan Star, built in France in 1916 and bought by a Blue Star-controlled company in 1924
Plans for the liners Avila and Avelona, built in 1926–27
Brisbane Star after her bow was rebuilt in 1943. She had been damaged by a torpedo during Operation Pedestal to relieve the siege of Malta in 1942.
Brasil Star, launched in 1947, was one of the replacements for war losses