2-617-904 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Playing quoits on board the SS Arandora Star, 1936. SS Arandora Star was a British passenger ship of the Blue Star Line. Built in 1927 as an ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship, she was converted in 1929 into a cruise ship. During World War II she was requisitioned as a troop ship. At the end of June 1940 she was assigned the task of transporting German and Italian internees and prisoners of war to Canada. On 2nd July 1940 she was sunk in controversial circumstances by a German U-boat with large loss of life. From a private album of a passenger who undertook a cruise on the S.S. Arandora Star, which began 9th April, 1936.