on April 25, 2006 8:00 PM Sue replied to Ron Faulkner > > Many thanks for your wonderful site the 'Ships List'. I am trying to > locate > information of the last journey of the RMS Alaunia 1. > I know from your information that the ship was mined and sank in 1916. I > would like to find out where the boat was headed at the time of her > sinking. > I believe that my Grandmother was on that ship and that she had lost two > of > her children - 'buried at sea'. > Any help that you could offer would be very much appreciated. Thanks very much. We do have a description and voyage history here, http://theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsA.html . . however, this site answers all your questions, including that the two deaths were crew members, not passengers. http://www.shipwrecksofscotland.com/RMS_Alaunia.htm >>>>>>>>>> It is by no means impossible that the two youngsters had died earlier on the fateful voyage - indeed "buried at sea" implies a deliberate consignment to the deep. If Ron could give the names of the children - or at least their family name - there should be a record. Unfortunately as an inbound vessel from the US, there is probably no surviving passenger list (outward from New York because they didn't keep them, and inward to London as she didn't arrive) David Asprey