The transatlantic liner SS Athenia was torpedoed only hours after Britain declared war on Germany, bringing what are believed to be have been the country’s first casualties of the conflict.

After writing “Without Warning,” a book about the sinking of the SS Athenia in the first days of the war, Tom Sanger realized the story was too compelling to not reach a broader audience.

The SS Athenia, a British ocean liner bound for Montreal, is steaming into the open Atlantic, 200 miles off the Hebrides west of northern Scotland. Aboard are 315 c… ...

As the world careened toward a second world war, the SS Athenia, of the Donaldson Atlantic Line, an affiliate of Cunard-White Star, sailed from Liverpool two days after the German Army invaded ...

Time passes, new wars arrive, memory fades. Mention of the sinking of the SS Athenia can draw puzzled looks. Where? When? How? But go back 75 years, check the newspapers, and there it is. News ...

Search for the wreck of the SS Athenia. The wreck of the SS Athenia is believed to lie 250 miles off the coast of Ireland. Credit: GSI/David Mearns. Decades later, David Mearns made a breakthrough.

Margaret Crow, at her home in Dallas, was aboard the SS Athenia, a British passenger vessel, 71 years ago when it was hit by a torpedo from a German submarine. She spent several hours in a ...

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A museum gifted a watch, worn by a cook on the first British ship to be sunk by Germany during World War Two, hopes to trace the seaman's family.

A museum which was gifted a watch, worn by a cook on the first British ship to be sunk by Germany in World War Two, is hoping to trace the seaman's family. Sidney Worrall was badly injured in the ...