Laurentic (SS)

Name: Laurentic (SS)
Address: IE

Steel Steamship in Ireland, dating from 1917

The Laurentic was a 14,892-ton liner built in 1908 by Harland and Wolff and owned by the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company. At the beginning of the war, the liner was hired by the White Star Line and converted into an armed merchant cruiser. The steamship was en route from Liverpool to Halifax via Buncrana in County Donegal, from where it departed on 25th January 1917, but struck a mine and sank with the loss of 354 lives. Many of the bodies were recovered and were buried in St Mura’s graveyard i

Type:: Steel Steamship
Period:: 1917
Coordinates:: 55.30°N, 7.59°W

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