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SS Sussex at Boulogne after being torpedoed in March 1916. The entire forepart of the ship was destroyed in the attack. The Sussex Pledge was a promise made by Germany to the United States in 1916, during World War I before the latter entered World War I. After the Arabic incident, the Germans had promised that attacks on passenger ships would ...
German U-boat U-14 (early 1910s) Unrestricted submarine warfare is a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchant ships such as freighters and tankers without warning.
The U-boat campaign from 1914 to 1918 was the World War I naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies, largely in the seas around the British Isles and in the Mediterranean, as part of a mutual blockade between the German Empire and the United Kingdom.
The French passenger steamer SS Sussex was sunk by u-boats while crossing the British Channel on 24 March 1916; the sinking inspired the German military to take the Sussex pledge to not sink Allied ship containing passengers in certain areas, which was controversial among German military leaders. [28]
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The Germans abrogated their Sussex pledge (not to sink merchant ships without due warning and to save human lives wherever possible) and began an unrestricted U-boat campaign on 1 February 1917. Since it was obvious that US shipping would also come under attack in the course of this operation, it became just a matter of time before the USA was ...
SS Sussex, a passenger ferry built for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1896. Sold to France in 1914, sold to Greece in 1920 and renamed. Sussex pledge, a pledge given by Germany in 1916 prompted by the torpedoing of the passenger ferry Sussex; Sussex, an East Indiaman ship