Laconia (disambiguation)
Laconia or Lakonia may refer to:
Places
- Laconia, a region of Greece
- Laconia, Indiana, United States
- Laconia, New Hampshire, United States
- Laconia, Tennessee, United States
- Laconia, Bronx, a neighborhood in the Bronx, New York, United States
Ships
- RMS Laconia (1911), 1911–1917, ocean liner and armed merchant ship, sunk in the First World War by a German U-boat
- RMS Laconia (1921), 1921–1942, British ocean liner and troop ship, sunk by a German U-boat in the Second World War while carrying civilians and Italian POWs; the attacking U-boat and other U-boats joined it to rescue survivors but then themselves came under attack from American bomber planes and abandoned the rescue
- the event and subsequent controversy became known as the Laconia incident
- TSMS Lakonia, 1929–1963, ocean liner and troop ship, evacuated while on fire during a cruise in 1963, sunk seven days later while being towed to Gibraltar
See also
- Loconia, a village in Apulia, Italy
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