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- Its 'next-to-the-last' voyage from Europe to America, made specifically to repatriate US citizens, departed from Genoa, Lisbon, Le Verdon-sur-Mer (near Bordeaux, France, 8 June) and Galway (12 June), encountered a German U-boat off the coast of Portugal on the morning of 11 June and arrived in New York on 21 June.
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U-boat stopped the SS Washington. According to Captain Harry Manning, this is what happened [excerpts]: It was on the next to the last refugee return trip from Europe made by the SS Washington last June, bound from Lisbon [Portugal] to Galway [Ireland].
Its 'next-to-the-last' voyage from Europe to America, made specifically to repatriate US citizens, departed from Genoa, Lisbon, Le Verdon-sur-Mer (near Bordeaux, France, 8 June) and Galway (12 June), encountered a German U-boat off the coast of Portugal on the morning of 11 June and arrived in New York on 21 June.
May 31, 2014 · U-2540. One of Germany’s last U-boats to be built, the U-2540 was scuttled before she could see action. A Type XXI, the 2540 was commissioned in late February, 1945. Fuel shortages prevented the 251-foot U-boat from sailing into battle – instead she was sent to the bottom of the Baltic on May, 4, 1945.
Aug 26, 2020 · The outcome of the attack on SS Sussex by German U-Boat SM UB-29 on March 24, 1916 was that of harsh political sanctions being levied at Germany. Interestingly though, In response Germany did row back on its aggressive strategy against civilian vessels providing assurances to the Americans through what was called the Sussex Pledge.
Aug 21, 1990 · By Ken Ringle. August 20, 1990 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. In 1983 Michael Gannon, a professor at the University of Florida, set out to write a history of his state from the 1500s on. But two years later ...
- Ken Ringle
May 7, 2015 · By the end of World War I, 344 U-boats had been commissioned, sinking more than 5,000 ships and resulting in the loss of 15,000 lives. The might of the U-boat, however, wasn't enough to hold back ...
May 20, 2019 · When 32 U-boats in a pair of wolfpacks sank 21 merchant ships from eastbound Convoys HX229 and SC122 in mid-March, naval leaders in Washington and London feared that the U-boats were on...
