Arandora Star, a luxury British ocean liner cruise ship, docked in the Los Angeles Harbor, San Pedro, 1934-1937

Title: Arandora Star, a luxury British ocean liner cruise ship, docked in the Los Angeles Harbor, San Pedro, 1934-1937
Date Created: [between March 10, 1934 and February 28, 1937]
Date: 1934-03-10/1937-02-28
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Luxury ocean liner Arandora Star anchored in the Los Angeles Harbor at San Pedro.
The Arandora Star was the flagship of the British-owned Blue Star Line (Ltd). She was launched on April 1, 1927 and cruised the Pacific and Atlantic oceans carrying some 350 passengers. In 1939 she was converted by the Royal British Navy to an armed merchant ship. On July 2, 1940 -- while transporting German and Italian prisoners of war to Canadian intern camps -- she was torpedoed by a German U-Boat. More than 800 people, roughly half those onboard, were lost with the ship.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Arandora Star, Ship: Blue Starline Flagship
Text from negative: Arandora Star

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_11112
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h92zs
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