Wreck and Memorials
Approximate position of Arandora Star's wreckThe wreck's position is 56°30′N 10°38′W / 56.500°N 10.633°W / 56.500; -10.633.
In the weeks following the Arandora Star's sinking many bodies of those who perished were carried by the sea to various points in Ireland and the Hebrides.
In the small graveyard of Termoncarragh, Belmullet, Co. Mayo, Luigi Tapparo, an internee, from Edinburgh, and John Connelly a Lovat Scout, lie buried side by side.
Ceazar Camozzi (1891–1940) from Iseo, Italy was washed ashore on the Inishowen peninsula, Co. Donegal and is buried at the Sacred Heart graveyard, Carndonagh.
46 German civilian detainees, who were being shipped from England to Canada for internment when the ship sunk were buried in the Glencree German war cemetery in County Wicklow
An unidentified sailor, unrecognisable other than for a tattoo bearing the name "Chrissie" was washed ashore near Newhouse, on the Atlantic coast of Kintyre, Argyll and after official investigation, buried at the local churchyard of Killean.
A memorial chapel was built in a cemetery in Bardi, home town of 48 of the dead. Bardi has also named a street Via Arandora Star.
St Peter's Italian Church in Clerkenwell, London, unveiled a memorial plaque in 1960. Each year a mass is held on the first Sunday in November, close to the anniversary of the unveiling of the plaque.
In 2004 the Italian town of Lucca unveiled a monument to 31 local men lost in the sinking, located in the courtyard of the museum of the Paolo Cresci Foundation for the History of Italian Emigration.
Numerous bodies were found on the Scottish island of Colonsay. A memorial was unveiled on Colonsay on 2 July 2005, the 65th anniversary of the tragedy, at the cliff where the body of Giuseppe Delgrosso was found.
A bronze memorial plaque was unveiled on 2 July 2008 at the Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas, Liverpool. It was relocated to the Pier Head in front of the old Mersey Docks and Harbour Board building after building work was finished.
In 2009, on the 69th anniversary, the Mayor of Middlesbrough unveiled a memorial in the town hall commemorating the town's 13 interned Italians held in cells there prior to deportation and death on the Arandora Star's final voyage.
On 2 July 2010, the 70th anniversary of the sinking, a new memorial was unveiled in St David's Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral, Cardiff by the Arandora Star Memorial Fund in Wales.
On the same day, 2 July 2010, a memorial cloister garden was opened next to St Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Glasgow.
The wreckage of one of the lifeboats remains visible at Knockvologan beach on the Ross of Mull, largely buried but with its iron suspension hooks still above the sand.
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