Laconia (disambiguation)
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Laconia or Lakonia may refer to:
- Laconia, the Bronx, a neighborhood in The Bronx, NY, United States
- Laconia, a region of Greece
- Laconia, Indiana, United States
- Laconia, New Hampshire, United States
- Laconia, Tennessee, United States
- Either of three ships named Laconia or Lakonia:
- RMS Laconia (1911), 1911–1917, ocean liner and armed merchant ship, sunk in WW I by a German U-boat
- RMS Laconia (1921), 1921–1942, British ocean liner and troop ship, sunk in WW II while carrying civilians and Italian POWs by a German U-boat; 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
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