NEWS Notes

10th February 2008
List of Crew and Others lost has been created,

15:January 2008
A new e-mail has been set up for the site please pass it on to anyone who might be interested

07:January 2008
If you have any ideas for the site your input would be considered and valued.

A vast amount of E-mails photo's, documents have been sent also AS memorabilia this
extremely helpful and will make the site more interesting.
It is taking a lot of time organising the data and will be published soon here.


Please continue to send any information any major contribution will credited to on this site

I will reply to all e-mails in turn due to the volume finding the time is a problem but thanks for all
sent and please continue to send them.

The photo, is a stone in the city hall of bratto in tuscany, commemorating the death of five passengers of arandora star, all from bratto and the villages around.
Submitted by Giorgio de Rossi (Roma)

Do you have any photos of The Arandora Star as a passenger ship or in war time service for inclusion on the site.

We are looking for any information of German internees, and other POW
on the AS, and also the crew members.


Officers & Crew 174
Military Guard 200
German Interned Males 479
German POW 86
Italian Interned Males 734

(please note only a guide line not confirmed)

   

The "Arandora Star"
in pre-war cruising days
you can help:
If you have any enquires about the content or can contribute contact us by

A short extract from The Star of Shame can be accessed on www.inishowenonline.com
this was originally researched by Mr Paddy McClure from Carndonagh.


As a boy growing up in Carndonagh, Paddy McClure was intrigued by an inscription in
the cemetery to an Italian man who died at sea. With careful research he has finally
pieced the mystery together.
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