Talk:SS Athenia (1922)

message: This section is fundamentally flawed and should be deleted as it stands. There is absolutely no indication as to whether most of these named individuals perished or survived.
621PWC (talk) 17:06, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Individuals Aboard 

message: The British crews were famous for putting the passenger's lives before there own, and were expertly trained to handle such "events;"
you must be joking with this text... Bias POV i could go on... Jacob80574.108.39.88 (talk) 14:21, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
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message: I’ve added another link; I thought it would be appropriate to have a British one, to compare with the 2 German ones.Xyl 54 (talk) 15:44, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
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message: Montgomery Evans II survived the sinking of the Athenia. He was a wealthy American (USA) book collector, world traveller, and a well known literary correspondent of the British author Arthur Machen. Evans' valuable book collection and manuscript of a book he was writing were lost. 
See page 104 of book referenced here for verification: Arthur Machen and Montgomery Evans, letters of a literary friendship 1923-47, edited by S S Hassler and D M Hassler, Kent State University Press,Ohio, 1994. Page 104 shows Machen's letter to Evans dated 4 Oct 1939 on his survival, and in addition the book contains other references to the sinking of the ship (see pages 46, 103 and 121).Floyd2008 (talk) 15:53, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  4 Famous people on the Athenia 

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message: ... and the Kriegsmarine did not admit responsibility until January 1946
:Impossible, as the Kriegsmarine no longer existed in 1946. Revised. Sca (talk) 13:49, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Admission of responsibility

message: The ships was illegally transporting war munitions. (2A00:23C7:CF0A:5A00:3D8B:5199:EACE:5F5C (talk) 19:59, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a reliable source for that? AlistairMcMillan (talk) 23:15, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: There is obviously nothing illegal about transporting munitions of war in merchant ships -- that is how they are always carried across the seas. Nor would carriage of munitions make any difference, under the Hague Conventions, to the U-boat captain's legal responsibility to give warning before attack (a rule ignored, to the point that it became something of a dead letter, by the submarine commanders of all combatant navies, but most obviously, aggressively and persistently ignored by the Germans, starting with this incident on the first day of the war). In fact the U-boat captain did not even bother to consult Lloyd's List and identify the ship he was attacking, so he could not possibly have known what was or was not on the cargo manifest even if a hypothetical German spy in Glasgow had wirelessed this information to Berlin. But there's no particular reason why Britain would have been shipping munitions to Canada just then, days before the outbreak of war, and of course the Athenia wasn't carrying any. Khamba Tendal (talk) 18:32, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  War munitions