Clyde-built
linerSS Athenia becomes the first civilian casualty of the war when she is
torpedoed and sunk by
German submarine U-30 in the vicinity of
Rockall. Of the 1,418 aboard, 98 passengers and 19 crew are killed;[2] the first survivors are brought in to
Greenock.[1] On 7 September, survivors are visited by
John F. Kennedy, son of the US Ambassador and future 35th President of the United States.[3]
World War II: First enemy aircraft forced down on British soil by RAF Fighter Command, a
Heinkel He 111 brought down near
Humbie by a Spitfire flown by
Archie McKellar following reconnaissance of the
Firth of Clyde.[8]
30 October – World War II: British battleship
HMS Nelson is unsuccessfully attacked by
U-56 under the command of captain
Wilhelm Zahn off
Orkney and is hit by three
torpedoes, none of which explode; Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty), Admiral of the Fleet
Dudley Pound (First Sea Lord) and Admiral
Charles Forbes (Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet) are on board.[8]
^Ewan, Elizabeth; Pipes, Rose; Rendall, Jane; Reynolds, Siân (eds.). The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women. Edinburgh University Press. p. 3.
ISBN9781474436281.
^Peter, Bruce (1996). 100 Years of Glasgow's Amazing Cinemas. Edinburgh: Polygon.
ISBN0748662103.
Clyde-built
linerSS Athenia becomes the first civilian casualty of the war when she is
torpedoed and sunk by
German submarine U-30 in the vicinity of
Rockall. Of the 1,418 aboard, 98 passengers and 19 crew are killed;[2] the first survivors are brought in to
Greenock.[1] On 7 September, survivors are visited by
John F. Kennedy, son of the US Ambassador and future 35th President of the United States.[3]
World War II: First enemy aircraft forced down on British soil by RAF Fighter Command, a
Heinkel He 111 brought down near
Humbie by a Spitfire flown by
Archie McKellar following reconnaissance of the
Firth of Clyde.[8]
30 October – World War II: British battleship
HMS Nelson is unsuccessfully attacked by
U-56 under the command of captain
Wilhelm Zahn off
Orkney and is hit by three
torpedoes, none of which explode; Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty), Admiral of the Fleet
Dudley Pound (First Sea Lord) and Admiral
Charles Forbes (Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet) are on board.[8]
^Ewan, Elizabeth; Pipes, Rose; Rendall, Jane; Reynolds, Siân (eds.). The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women. Edinburgh University Press. p. 3.
ISBN9781474436281.
^Peter, Bruce (1996). 100 Years of Glasgow's Amazing Cinemas. Edinburgh: Polygon.
ISBN0748662103.