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Transylvania – The ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of Genoa on 4 May by U-63. She was carrying Allied troops to Egypt; 412 people were killed. 412 Military 1914 Germany: SMS Yorck – on 4 November the German cruiser accidentally ran into a German minefield and was sunk; killing several hundred people. 400 Navy 1916 United Kingdom
Torpedoed and sunk USS President Lincoln: Troop ship United States Navy: 18,168 31 May 1918: U-90: Walter Remy Torpedoed and sunk, most lives saved Laconia: Passenger ship United Kingdom: 18,099 25 February 1917: U-50: Gerhard Berger USS Minnesota [a] Battleship United States Navy: 18,000 29 September 1918: U-117: Otto Dröscher HMS Britannia ...
Graveyard from the Tuscania disaster. SS Tuscania was a luxury liner of the Anchor Line, a subsidiary of the Cunard Line and named after Tuscania, Italy.In 1918 the ship was torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat UB-77 while transporting American troops to Europe with the loss of 210 lives.
A variant on the idea was to equip small vessels with a submarine escort. In 1915, three U-boats were sunk by Q-ships and two more by submarines accompanying trawlers. [20] In June, U-40 was sunk by HMS C24 while attacking Taranaki, and in July U-23 was sunk by C-27 attacking Princess Louise.
United States Navy operations during World War I began on April 6, 1917, after the formal declaration of war on the German Empire. The United States Navy focused on countering enemy U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea while convoying men and supplies to France and Italy. Because of United States's late entry into the war ...
Seven Type U-151 and three Type U-139 had been built, the Type U-151 originally as large merchant U-boats for shipping material to and from locations otherwise denied German surface ships, such as the United States, and 6 Type U-151 were refitted for war duty in 1917. The Type U-139 were the largest U-boats of World War I.
SM U-53 at Newport, Rhode Island in 1916. SM U-53 was one of the six Type U 51 U-boats of the Imperial German Navy during the First World War.While in command of U-53 her first captain Hans Rose became the 5th ranked German submarine ace of World War I sinking USS Jacob Jones and 87 merchant ships for a total of 224,314 gross register tons (GRT).
Naval warfare of World War I; Part of World War I: Clockwise from top left: the Cornwallis fires in Suvla Bay, Dardanelles 1915; U-boats moored in Kiel, around 1914; a lifeboat departs from an Allied ship hit by a German torpedo, around 1917; two Italian MAS in practice in the final stages of the war; manoeuvres of the Austro-Hungarian fleet with the Tegetthoff in the foreground