Arandora Star
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Place name
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Arandora Star
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Place type
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Physical
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Locational certainty
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1. High confidence
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Short description
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SS Arandora Star, originally SS Arandora, was a British passenger ship of the Blue Star Line. She was built in 1927 as an ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship, converted in 1929 into a cruise ship and requisitioned as a troopship in the Second World War. At the end of June 1940 she was assigned the task of deporting interned Anglo-Italian and Anglo-German civilians as well as a small number of legitimate prisoners of war to Canada. On 2 July 1940 she was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland with a large loss of life, 805 people. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Arandora_Star)
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Start date for named place
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1927
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End date for named place
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1940