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RMS Lancastria was a British ocean liner requisitioned by the Government of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. She was sunk on 17 June 1940

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

Royal Mail Ship (sometimes Steam-ship or Steamer), usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail

RMS Laconia HMT Lancastria USS Leviathan (ex Vaterland) HMT Mauretania (Sister ship to Lusitania) SS Mendi HMT Olympic (Sister ship to Titanic) SS Orontes

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fighter patrols and attacked evacuation ships in the Loire estuary, sinking the Cunard liner and troopship HMT Lancastria which was carrying thousands of troops

aboard the Clyde-built cruise liner, later converted to troopship, RMS Lancastria, which was attacked and sunk by German Junkers Ju 88 bombers, mainly from

The auxiliary ship Olterra was a 5,000 GRT Italian tanker scuttled by her crew at Algeciras in the Bay of Gibraltar on 10 June 1940, after the entry of

passengers and crew from the bombing of RMS Lancastria in the estuary of the River Loire during Operation Aerial. The ship's boat picked up many survivors from

Aquitania and Mauretania survived, but many of the secondary ships were lost. Both Lancastria and Laconia were sunk with heavy loss of life. In 1947 Cunard