The RMS Andania was the first of six British 'A'-Class steam ocean liners built for the Cunard Line in the 1920s. She was launched in 1921 and operated the Hamburg to New York route, later switching to the route between Liverpool and Montreal. During the Second World War she was requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser and was torpedoed by a German submarine, sinking on the 16th of June 1940, with no loss of life. The ship was built by Hawthorn Leslie and Company and this photograph was taken whilst she was docked at the Surrey Commercial Docks. The Bedford Lemere daybook does not record for whom this series of photographs were taken.
This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series of photographic negatives and prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Bedroom, Early 20th Century Watercraft, Water Transport
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