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United States: USS President Lincoln (1907) – The troopship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 600 nautical miles (1,100 km) off Brest, Finistère, France by SM U-90 ( Imperial German Navy) with the loss of 26 of the 715 people on board. Survivors were rescued by USS Smith and USS Warrington (both United States Navy). 26 Military
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.
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first passenger liner to sink during World War I. The wreck of the German commerce raider was identifiable because its starboard side remained above the waterline until the ship was scrapped in 1952. One British soldier was killed in the battle and six others were wounded. German casualties are unknown.
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: Battleship Royal Navy: 16,350 9 November ...
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).
The British established a naval blockade of Germany on the outbreak of war in August 1914, issuing a comprehensive list of contraband that grew to include even foodstuffs, and in early November 1914 Britain declared the North Sea to be a "military area", with any ships entering the North Sea doing so at their own risk unless they obeyed specific Royal Navy instructions.
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 ...
SM U-73 was one of 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I.She engaged in the commerce war as part of the First Battle of the Atlantic. U-73 has the distinction of being responsible for planting the underwater mine that later led to the sinking of the largest ship sunk during World War I, the 48,158 tons hospital ship Britannic.