The worst British maritime disaster - the sinking of the RMS Lancastria in June 1940 - is one of the lesser-known of our national tragedies. It remains one of the largest losses of life from a single ...

Crowds gathered to see the liner in the River Mersey - four years later she would be bombed The worst British maritime disaster - the sinking of the RMS Lancastria in June 1940 - is one of the ...