Mary Agnes Farnsworth, who was returning from summer holiday in Europe, survived an attack on The Athenia at the onset of the Second World War The sinking of the British ocean liner Lusitania by a German U-boat during the First World War is one of the best-known maritime tragedies in history, arguably second only to the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. Largely forgotten today is the horrific sinking of yet another British passenger ship. That disaster, so similar to the Lusitania story, had a Guelph connection. The Athenia was a steam turbine passenger liner, built in Glasgow, Scotland, in...
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