As was noted with interest by more than one Hong Kong newspaper, the RMS Laconia was the first ship to sail completely around the world, “purely for the purposes of pleasure”. Owned by Britain’s ...

After U-156 torpedoed RMS Laconia off West Africa in 1942, Captain Werner Hartenstein discovered that the ship was carrying large numbers of Italian prisoners of war along with Allied personnel and ...

OLD NEWS A strange item in the news section of the Lonely Planet website caught my eye recently. “New in Travel: first ever round-the-world cruise will visit 35 countries in 141 days”, announced the ...

The sinking of the RMS Laconia marked a major turning point in World War II. When war broke out, the ship was commandeered by the British Government for use as a troopship and fitted with eight ...

In September 1942, the German submarine U-156 torpedoed the British passenger ship RMS Laconia in the South Atlantic, believing it to be a normal enemy transport. But after the attack, Captain Werner ...

Alan Bleasdale, author of TV series GBH, has penned a two-part drama for BBC2 about the sinking of RMS Laconia in September 1942. Made by Talkback Thames and German producer Teamworx, Laconia is based ...

This 2010 European docudrama miniseries tells the true story of a controversial incident in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. In September 1942, A German submarine torpedoed and sank an aging ...

This two-part drama is a rather creaky re-telling of one of the more notorious incidents of WWII when The RMS Laconia was torpedoed and sunk by a German u-boat. Alan Bleasdale’s script tells of the ...

Acclaimed British writer Alan Bleasdale (Boys From The Blackstuff; GBH) returns to the BBC with Laconia, a powerful new two-part drama for BBC Two based on factual accounts of the attack and sinking ...

BBC Two lines up a major two-part drama based on the Second World War sinking of the RMS Laconia. Acclaimed writer Alan Bleasdale has penned a drama for BBC Two based on the tragic sinking of the RMS ...