RMS Aurania (1916)

History
The HMT Aurania (2) underway
United Kingdom
Name	Aurania
Operator	Cunard Line
Builder	Wallsend-on-Tyne
Launched	16 July 1916
Maiden voyage	28 March 1917
Fate	Sunk by torpedo, 2 August 1918
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	13,936 GRT
Propulsion	2 × steam engines 2 × propellers
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)

RMS Aurania was an ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line. She was built in 1916 at Wallsend and measured 13,936 gross register tons.

The Aurania was the last of three ships planned to serve between Canada and Europe. Her sister ships were the Andania and Alaunia. Although ordered in December 1913, because of the First World War, she was not completed until 1916.

The Aurania was launched on 16 July 1916 and was immediately fitted out as a

German submarine UB-67. Nine crew members were killed in the explosion. A trawler took the ship in tow but she became stranded near Tobermory on the Isle of Mull, Scotland

. Rough seas soon broke Aurania up and she was declared a total loss.

Citations

References

"S/S Aurania (2), Cunard Line". NorwayHeritage.com. Retrieved 10 December 2008.

External links

"Items recovered from the ship". Cunard-WhiteStarLine.net. Archived from the original on 29 June 2007. Retrieved 10 December 2008.

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v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in February 1918
Shipwrecks	1 Feb: HMS E50 4 Feb: Aurania, UC-50 5 Feb: Tuscania 6 Feb: Glenartney 8 Feb: HMS Boxer, UB-38 11 Feb: Diane 12 Feb: U-89 21 Feb: USS Gallup, U-23 23 Feb: Florizel 26 Feb: USS Cherokee, HMHS Glenart Castle Unknown date: Bernoulli
Other incidents	15 Feb: SMS G102 24 Feb: USS Davis, HMS L2, USS Paulding, USS Trippe
1917 1918 1919 January 1918 March 1918

56°36′N 6°20′W / 56.600°N 6.333°W / 56.600; -6.333

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