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When the German U-boats targeted the Lusitania with a torpedo, the ship sank more quickly than expected. Here's why that ...
In this documentary, we are going to examine the events surrounding probably the most significant sinking of a ship by a U-boat during the entire conflict. It is an event that would have far ...
Some 1,200 people died when the ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat in World War One. A centenary since ... States into the conflict. The sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 is less ...
U-boats were sinking an average of 100,000 tons of British shipping a month, at twice the rate it took to build replacement vessels, according to Deborah Lake’s Smoke and Mirrors: Q-Ships ...
The ship exploded and sank in fewer than eight minutes with just 70 sailors surviving. The month before sinking HMS Hawke, the same U-boat sank three Royal Navy cruisers in one hour, killing more ...
The HMS Hawke was torpedoed by a German U-boat ... the ship had been when it fired the torpedo at the Hawke and looked at logs of other ships that communicated with the Hawke before its sinking.
Many of the 110 men on the ship had been killed when the torpedo exploded. Others were trapped below deck and went down with the wreckage. Some were pulled under by the suction of the sinking vessel.
The U-111, the last World War I-era German submarine to be discovered in U.S. waters, was sunk off the coast of Virginia in 1922 by the U.S. Navy, sinking ... wreckages of ships and submarines ...