SS Laurentic (1927)
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SS Laurentic was a 18,724 GRT steam ocean liner built in 1927 by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, for White Star Line. The second ship of the company to bear this name, she was the last steamship to be bui
Laurentic in 1936
Laurentic in Haifa as a troop ship in 1936, with British troops on the quayside
Rum Issue by John Worsley, who served aboard HMS Laurentic
HMS Hesperus rescued 367 survivors from Laurentic
German submarine U-99 (1940)
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German submarine U-99 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 31 March 1939 at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel as yard number 593. She
SS Laurentic (1927)
…as HMS Laurentic with the pennant number F51. She was one of the last ships of the Royal Navy to be bunkered with coal. At 2140 hrs on 3 November 1940 German submarine U-99 torpedoed the Elders and Fyffes banana boat Casanare in the Western Approaches west of Bloody Foreland in Ireland. Laurentic and another AMC, HMS…
U-52, a typical Type VIIB boat
Painting of Merisaar's lifeboat approaching U-99 on 12 July 1940
Empire Brigade
Postcard of Laurentic