Word: andania
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Last week Spanish fishermen quit working off the Irish coast because they saw too many U-boats to suit them. One torpedoed the 13,950-ton British merchant-cruiser Andania...
With the cream of its Coronation passenger crop aboard the Queen Mary, Cunard White Star acted quickly. A telephone call to Montreal, and Independent Union longshoremen were shooed off the Alaunia and the Andania loading there. Mr. Ryan called off his strike and within a few minutes 1,800 happy travelers were bound for the Coronation. Within two hours Independent Union men were back at work on the Alaunia and Andania, and I.L.A. was again out on strike in Manhattan. A serious strike was threatened with Cunard White Star (and also Furness-Withy Lines) caught between the millstones of warring...
...last week there came from the Post Office Department an order withdrawing from the Berengaria, the Ansonia and the Andania, three Cunard Line vessels, all trans-Atlantic mail not specifically addressed to these three vessels. Immediately came protests. The Berengaria crosses the Atlantic in six days. Transfer of its mail to other, slower ships meant that such mail would take from three to six days longer in transit. The Post Office speedily reversed itself, rescinded the order, explained that it had been issued because it had been supposed that the Berengaria would be late in sailing. The rescinding order also...
...transatlantic run the Cunarder Andania was perhaps subjected to heaviest buffeting. When she reached Liverpool her master, Captain Doyle said: "It was as bad as we could have it and stay afloat. . . . Mountainous seas washed over us fore...
...Board. Joe de Ganahi '25 has had his holiday extended to begin on Friday. December 6, in order that he may go to Europe to attend the marriage of his brother, Carl de Ganahi. De Ganahi will sail from New York next Saturday either on the Leviathan or the Andania...