| Name: | ANDANIA |
| Type: | Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 01/11/1921 |
| Completed: | 05/1922 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 500 |
| Dimensions: | 13950grt, 8391nrt, 520.2 x 65.3 x 39.2ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Steam Turbines, DR geared, 1677nhp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 15.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 145934 |
| History: | |
| 22/05/1922 | Cunard Steamship Co Ltd, Liverpool |
| 1934 | Cunard White Star Ltd, Liverpool |
| 16/06/1940 | Sank |
| Comments: | Accommodation for 500 x Cabin Class & 1200 x 3rd Class passengers |
| 09/1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty & converted to an armed merchant cruiser | |
| Armed with 6 x 1 x 6ins guns & 2 x 1 x 3ins AA guns | |
| 16/06/1940: Torpedoed & sunk by German U-Boat UA, 230 miles off the Faroe Islands | |
| Sank slowly by the stern & crew were taken off by the Icelandic trawler SKALLAGRIMUR | |
| The crew were later transfered to HMS FORESTER. No loss of life. |
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