RMS Andania (1921)

RMS Andania  was a British ocean liner launched in 1921. She was the first of six 14,000 ton "A"-class liners built for the Cunard Line in the early 1920s. (The others were RMS Antonia, Austonia, RMS Aurania (1924), Ascania, and Alaunia).

The ship was constructed in Hebburn by the shipbuilders Hawthorn Leslie and Company, was 538 feet long, and weighed just under 14,000 tons. She could carry more than 1,700 passengers and required 270 crew. She firstly worked on the Hamburg to New York route, and later between Liverpool and Montreal.

At the start of World War II, Andania was requisitioned for use as an armed merchant cruiser. Whilst engaged on these duties, she was torpedoed and badly damaged by the GS U-A on 16 June 1940. All on board were rescued before the crippled liner sank some 70 mi from Reykjavík.