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The sinking of the SS Athenia on 02 September, 1939 was considered a war crime. It was an unarmed, civilian, transatlantic ocean liner. Due to its reported zigzagging course, the commander of the German U-Boat, U-30, took it for a military transport of some sort and fired.

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