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	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - Question about the loss of HMT Lancastria at St Nazaire
		On the 17th of June 1940 the 16,000 ton Cunard liner Lancastria lay 5 miles off St Nazaire and embarked troops, RAF personnel, and civilian refugees, including women and children, who were being evacuated from France, which was then on the verge of collapse.
		When Lancastria was bombed, it seems the main rescue ships were Havelock, Harvester, the cargo ship John Holt, a Trawler Cambridgeshire, and the Oransay near by, she herself was damaged in the German attack, her bridge destroyed, without her Captain, nevertheless, she picked up people from Lancastria, managed to limp back to England.
		Lancastria was able to lower only two of her own lifeboats, as she went down by the bow, the tilting ship made it impossible to lower any other of her lifeboats.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /Letters/QuestionaboutthelossofHMT.html (1018 words)

	RMS Lancastria - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		She sailed scheduled routes from England to New York until 1932, and was then used as a cruise ship in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe.
		With the outbreak of the Second World War, she carried cargo before being requisitioned in April 1940 as a troopship, becoming the HMT Lancastria.
		Due to the imposition of the D-notice, survivors and the crews of the ships that went to the aid of Lancastria did not discuss the disaster at the time due to the fear of court martial.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/RMS_Lancastria (713 words)

	Press Pack
		The Lancastria Association of Scotland is the leading campaigning organisation which aims to raise awareness of the sacrifice made on the 17th of June 1940 when an estimated 4000 people lost their lives when the Clyde built troopship Lancastria was sunk of the French coastal town of St. Nazaire by German bombers.
		The Lancastria Association of Scotland was formed in August 2005 with an aim to raise awareness of the sacrifice, campaign to have the maximum protection possible given to the site of the Lancastria and designation as an official maritime war grave under UK law.
		There are numerous high definition/resolution images of Lancastria available ranging from tourist pictures of the vessel taken during peace time on one of her many cruises and most notably of the attack on the vessel on the 17th of June 1940 which documents Lancastria’s final moments.
	www.lancastria.org.uk /News/Press_Pack/press_pack.html (1659 words)

	RMS Lancastria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The RMS Lancastria was a Cunard liner sunk on June 17, 1940 during World War II with the loss of, possibly, 4,000 lives.
		With the outbreak of the Second World War, she carried cargo before being requisitioned in April 1940 as a troopship, becoming the HMT Lancastria.
		She was first used to assist in the evacuation of troops from Norway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMT_Lancastria (656 words)

	Royal Pioneer Corps & Royal Pioneer Association
		The Lancastria was one of these ships, a single funnelled vessel of 16,243 tons whose five decks could accommodate in peacetime close to 2000 passengers, but after being converted to troopship duties it could, with reasonable comfort take on at least twice that many.
		Shortly before the Lancastria was hit, the Oronsay was struck by a bomb, but sustained only minor damage and little loss of life, and shortly the ship began moving out and was on its way to England, its engines labouring under the heavy passenger load it had taken on.
		Suffice it to say that the sinking of the Lancastria was the single greatest marine(not naval) disaster suffered by the British in WW II, and for the sake of morale at a time when that morale wavered under the punishing blows of defeat in France, publicity, through necessity, was minimized.
	www.royalpioneercorps.co.uk /rpc/history_lancastria.htm (5696 words)

	The Fall of Brittany 1940 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		From New York the Lancastria sailed to Halifax, Canada, returning with cargo to England where she was taken on hire by the government for troop transport.
		However despite the horror of the Lancastria's demise Captain Sharp - who survived the ordeal - stated that there was no panic on board, even up to the final moment as the hull slid beneath the sea.
		With the sudden and catastrophic disappearance of the Lancastria, the tempo of evacuation increased.
	www.uboatwar.net /brittany.htm (7488 words)

	*** The story of the Lancastria - as told by Robert Eric Hill born 23rd November 1917, died 22nd February 2002 ***
		Robert was one of only 2,000 or so to have survived and it is to his enormous credit that he was able to return to active service, going on to serve in North Africa with the 8th Army, the Desert Rats as well as in Persia and India.
		He was deeply affected by the sinking of the Lancastria and was always reluctant to talk about it, but he remained an excellent soldier.
		In his role as Staff Sergeant he encouraged and mentored his men, showing the qualities for friendship that were apparent throughout his life, the ability to see and respect an individual no matter what their rank or social standing.
	www.cassyput.com /clara_net/lancastria/lancastria.htm (1963 words)

	J&G Maritime History Society Warships \| The World of Warships Facts & Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		RMS Lancastria became HMT Lancastria when she was commandeered for war, and her sleek Cunard lines were lost under a coat of battleship grey.
		The crew had already been paid off when the telegram came ordering the Lancastria to be ready to sail with Operation Aerial and, together with other vessels, she made for Plymouth where the vessel was given orders to sail for western France.
		Memories of the 'Lancastria' are still painful to those involved in the catastrophe Of the 2,477 men rescued from the Lancastria, about 100 are still alive today.
	www.freewebs.com /worldwarships/battleforatlanticww2.htm (3466 words)

	Cunarder Lancastria
		In the years immediately after being renamed, Lancastria was coupled with the Tuscania and served in tandem with the Caronia and Carmania on the “Cabin Channel Service”—from New York to Plymoth, Le Havre and London.
		In short order the Lancastria was straddled with bombs, one of which ruptured her fuel tanks and spilled oil into the water.
		As the Lancastria rolled to her side, those on her hull began singing “Roll the Barrel” and “There’ll Always Be an England”.
	www.bryking.com /lancastria/career.html (881 words)

	The Lancastria Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A commemoration for the sunken Liner the ‘Lancastria’ was held on Saturday the 21st of August 2004 at Larch Hill, Scouting Ireland's National Campsite.
		The Lancastria's captain, Rudolph Sharp, who had survived the sinking of the Lusitania in 1914, survived the sinking of his ship, but was to later lose his life on the Laconia on 12 September 1942, when she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-156.
		There is also a HMT Lancastria Association (for survivors) but on the whole the Lancastria lies forgotten with 26m of water on top of her.
	www.dlscouts.ie /lancastria.html (2280 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - Loss of HMT Lancastria at St Nazaire on the 17th. of June 1940. One of Britain's worst Maritime ...
		HMT Lancastria was amongst the ships laying off ST Nazaire to lift the stranded members of the BEF to safety.
		April 1940 found the Admiralty requisitioning Lancastria for the role of a troopship, and Steam Ship became His Majesty's Troopship, and off she went to assist evacuation of troops from Norway.
		Each year, on the anniversary of the sinking of Lancastria, the Association formed to honour and remember her, go back to St Nazaire for a ceremony at the Memorial dedicated to those who died that fateful day almost 64 years ago.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/LossofHMTLancastriaatStNa.html (1582 words)

	bymnews.com
		Mr Watson said: "The sinking of the HMT Lancastia was a national tragedy which resulted in thousands of men, women and children losing their lives.
		Personnel who served on the HMT Lancastria will be honoured, among others, when the first annual Veterans Day is held on 27 June.
		The wreck of the HMT Lancastria is located at the mouth of the Loire,off the Pointe de St. Gildas.
	www.bymnews.com /new/content/view/30851/89 (409 words)

	Wilhelm Gustloff - Mail & Comments
		HMT Lancastria - An untold story of sacrifice and disaster.The Lancastria is perhaps the least known of all the great ship tragedies.
		Lancastria was to become the forth worst shipping loss, in terms of human life, this century, and the single worst in British maritime history.
		The Lancastria was dying and with her thousands of people.Hundreds of men, women and children were now in the oil soaked sea.
	www.compunews.com /gus/mail2.htm (10614 words)

	HMT Lancastria
		Lancastria then took part in Operation Aerial where she was required in St Nazaire, France, to evacuate more British troops.
		Lancastria rolled onto her port side and made her way bow first to her grave on the seabed.
		Lancastria’s history is not well known is that Winston Churchill felt the country’s morale could not bear the burden of such terrible news and newspapers were ordered not to print the story.
	www.geocities.com /shipwrecks_magazine/lancastria.htm (902 words)

	Other Disasters - Lancastria
		In April 1940 Lancastria was requisitioned as a troopship and immediately saw action during the evacuation of troops from Norway.
		On her return she was loaded with approximately 1500 tonnes of fuel oil at Glasgow before heading for Liverpool on the 14th of June, her home port, for dry-docking and a well needed overhaul.
		In June 1998 survivors and members of the Lancastria Association undertook a pilgrimage to St. Nazaire to commemorate the anniversary of the sinking.
	www.compunews.com /gus/lancastria.htm (1228 words)

	Speeches
		Walter Hirst, my assistant's grandfather, was a survivor of the Lancastria, which sank on 17 June 1940 with an estimated loss of life of 4000 the worst naval disaster in British history.
		Some of the relatives of the people who did not survive did not hear anything for nearly 18 months until they received a War Office telegram that stated that their husband, father or son was lost in action in France, presumed dead aboard HMT Lancastria.
		Walter Hirst, who survived what happened to the Lancastria, had his own long history; Jock Hunter was survived by my father, who is now 90 and has family, friends and his own long history.
	www.snp.mcdond.co.uk /html/speeches.html (1212 words)

	HMT Lancastria - YD Dive Forums & Scuba Community
		I was talking the other night to my parents about my grandfather who apparently narrowly missed getting on the HMT Lancastria out of St Nazaire on 17th June 1940.
		This was just as well as she was sunk in an air raid with the loss (unofficially) of 4000 lives.
		The wreck is located at 9,5 miles in the south-west of Saint-Nazaire, along the channel of the Loire the wreck is located at 17 m of depth.
	www.yorkshire-divers.com /forums/wreck-diving/24000-hmt-lancastria.html (502 words)

	World War II - Glasgow Forum
		On 17th June 1940, HMT Lancastria, which was built on the Clyde in 1922, was near St Nazaire, France, bursting with an estimated 7,000 evacuees, when she was bombed by the Luftwaffe with the loss of about 5,000 lives in one of Britain's worst maritime disasters.
		There was an article on this morning's news regarding a campaign led by The HMT Lancastria Association and Lancastria Association Scotland to raise public awareness of the bombing and have those that died officially honoured in an effort to stop divers visiting the wreck...
		It would be interesting to hear from anyone who had a relation who may have been involved in the building of the Lancastria or anyone who travelled on her, or knows of someone who travelled on her, at any time between she was launched in 1922 until she was bombed in 1940.
	www.glasgowforum.co.uk /index.php?topic=355.0 (361 words)

	Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board: Shipwrecks
		There is a HMT Lancastria Association and for some reason I think it may be located in L'pool.
		Some basic information on Lancastria, together with a couple of postcard views of her, can be seen at http://www.greatships.net/lancastria.html
		And FYI helmsman Hugh Robert Johnston of the Lusitania was also on the Lancastria.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /discus/messages/6937/680.html?982245626 (730 words)

	Article
		The heavy bell of the Lancastria, a Cunard Line cruise ship converted to military transport, was discovered by 90 members of the British association in the Pornichet cemetery in western France on Thursday with an anonymous note by the person who left it there.
		In the message, the author said he had kept the bell - which is inscribed with the former name of the cruise ship, Tyrrhena - for the past 30 years after raising it from the wreck.
		The HMT Lancastria was sunk on June 17, 1940 after taking on board between 5,000 and 9,000 British troops and civilians being evacuated from France following that country's defeat to the invading Germans.
	www.rantburg.com /poparticle.php?ID=122020&D=2005-06-19&HC=3 (340 words)

	Aviation Museum - Restored Second World War Operations Room - Spitfire and Hurricane Fighter Aircraft
		Over the period 11-19 June 2000, the Lancastria Association has arranged a final pilgrimage to St Nazaire for survivors and relatives of those lost, to pay their final respects.
		Lancastria was requisitioned as a troopship and immediately saw action during the evacuation of troops from Norway.
		The Lancastria immediately listed to starboard, although this was partially corrected by moving troops to the port side; but the ship was doomed and she started to settle by the bow.
	www.airops.freeserve.co.uk /digbyops/scripts/lancastria.htm (2307 words)

	Titanic News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The SS Nomadic - one of the last remaining maritime links to the Titanic - was returned by barge across the English Channel to its Belfast birthplace last July.
		A petition is presented to No.10 on behalf of those who died in 1940 on board HMT Lancastria.
		Britain's worst ever loss of life at sea - not the Titanic as you might presume, but the HMT Lancastria.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /news.php (552 words)

	BBC - History - The 'Lancastria' - a Secret Sacrifice in World War Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		There are many families in England who never knew of the fate of their loved ones in western France in June 1940, only that they died with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF).
		The Association has in some cases been able to confirm to some families that their family member was indeed on the Lancastria, and has accompanied that family to a grave in western France, so that at last they are able to say their farewell.
		This article is based on an account of the Lancastria's sinking, by Raye Dancocks, Chair of the HMT Lancastria Association.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/worldwars/wwtwo/lancastria_07.shtml (290 words)

	D/S Sirehei - Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939-1945
		On June 9 she left Barry with a cargo of coal for St. Nazaire, where it soon became apparent that an evacuation of British forces and war materials was underway.
		She was anchored in the bay just north of the city right next to the Cunard Line's Lancastria which already had 5800 men on board and was ready to depart, when a powerful air attack started on June 17, lasting for almost an hour.
		Lancastria was hit by two bombs and set on fire, the sea around her was covered in oil which also caught on fire, and when she sank about 15 minutes later almost 3000 men died.
	www.warsailors.com /singleships/sirehei.html (899 words)

	The Worst British Maritime loss ever - Military Images Photos Pictures Forums
		Her final peace-time cruise in the idyllic waters of the Bahamas was made in September 1939, and ended with the ship docked in New York, and the world at war.
		At 1615, less than 20 minutes later, the Lancastria rolled onto her port side and made her way bow first to her grave on the seabed.
		The reason the Lancastria’s history is not well known is that Winston Churchill felt the country’s morale could not bear the burden of such terrible news and newspapers were ordered not to print the story.
	www.militaryimages.net /forums/showthread.php?p=18144 (668 words)

	Shipwrecks [Archive] - eBaum's World Forum
		Lancastria sailed routes between England and New York up until 1932 when she was transferred to the Mediterranean for cruising purposes.
		Lancastria arrived at the mouth of the Loire river estuary on the 16th of June and by the afternoon of June 17th, the ship had taken aboard an undetermined number of military and civilian refugees numbering approximately 4000-9000.
		The Lancastria was the worst maritime disaster in British history, yet the sinking is barely known by most people due to the tremendous coverup made by Winston Churchill and the Admiralty.
	forum.ebaumsworld.com /archive/index.php/t-129676.html (6021 words)

	Lancastria Association of Scotland
		The Lancastria's acting Adjutant had desperately attempted to compile a list of those boarding from the small fleet of vessels ferrying men and refugees out to Lancastria and initially put the figure at almost 9,000 embarked, a figure backed up by a number of survivors.
		Recently authors, such as Brian Crabb, have managed to pull together a full list of those known to have perished aboard Lancastria but there is evidence to suggest that many more individuals boarded the Lancastria than official records indicate.
		However the scale of the disaster is only one small part of the story and does not reveal the true extent of the horror that day.
	www.lancastria.org.uk /home.html (2114 words)

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