"commercial British steamship ""Falaba"" was sunk by a German submarine with the loss of 111 lives, including one American. In the spring of 1915 a German bomb struck an American ship, the ""Cushing"" and a German submarine torpedoed an American tanker, the ""Gulflight"". Wilson took the view, based on some reasonable evidence, that both incidents were accidental, and that a settlement of claims could be postponed to the end of the war. A German submarine torpedoed and sank the British ocean liner RMS ""Lusitania"" in May 1915; over a thousand perished, including many Americans. Wilson did not call for war;"
"Sinking of the RMS Lusitania The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS ""Lusitania"" occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat and sank in 18 minutes. The vessel went down off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,198 and leaving 761 survivors. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, contributed to the American entry into World War I and became an iconic symbol in military"
"whose systems most likely malfunctioned after being forced to submerge in the shallow waters, upon encountering the Romanian torpedo boat. SM UC-15 SM ""UC-15"" was a German Type UC I minelayer submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 23 November 1914, laid down on 28 January 1915, and was launched on 19 May 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 28 June 1915 as SM ""UC-15"". Mines laid by ""UC-15"" during her eight patrols are credited with sinking 3 ships. ""UC-15"" disappeared in November 1916. A"
"Sinking of the RMS Lusitania. RMS Lusitania RMS ""Lusitania"" was a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. The ship was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. The sinking presaged the United States declaration of war on Germany in 1917. The ship was a holder of the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing and was briefly the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her sister ship . The Cunard Line launched ""Lusitania"" in 1906, at a time of fierce competition for the North Atlantic"
"bow, four torpedoes, and one Tk L/40 deck gun. Her complement was twenty-three crew members. SM UB-19 SM ""UB-19"" was a German Type UB II submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 30 April 1915 and launched on 2 September 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 16 December 1915 as SM ""UB-19"". The submarine sank 14 ships in 15 patrols for a totel of . ""UB-19"" was sunk in the English Channel at on 30 November 1916 by British Q ship (Q 7). A German"
"SM UC-15 SM ""UC-15"" was a German Type UC I minelayer submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 23 November 1914, laid down on 28 January 1915, and was launched on 19 May 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 28 June 1915 as SM ""UC-15"". Mines laid by ""UC-15"" during her eight patrols are credited with sinking 3 ships. ""UC-15"" disappeared in November 1916. A German Type UC I submarine, ""UC-15"" had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. She had a"
"SM UB-19 SM ""UB-19"" was a German Type UB II submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 30 April 1915 and launched on 2 September 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 16 December 1915 as SM ""UB-19"". The submarine sank 14 ships in 15 patrols for a totel of . ""UB-19"" was sunk in the English Channel at on 30 November 1916 by British Q ship (Q 7). A German Type UB II submarine, ‘’UB-19’’ had a displacement of when at the surface and while"
"HMS H5 HMS ""H5"", was a British ""H""-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She sank the U-boat ""U 51"" in July 1916, but was herself sunk after being rammed by the British merchantman ""Rutherglen"" when mistaken for a German U-boat on 2 March 1918. All on board perished; they are commemorated on Panel 29 at Royal Navy Submarine Museum. Also on board as an observer was US Navy Lieutenant Earle Wayne Freed Childs from the American submarine AL-2. He became the first US submariner to lose his life in the First World War. The wreck's site is designated as a"
"against British fishing vessels. ""D5"" fired two torpedoes at the German light cruiser , both of which missed. ""D5"" met her fate south of South Cross Buoy off Great Yarmouth in the North Sea. She was sunk by a German mine laid by on 3 November 1914 after responding to a German attack on Yarmouth by cruisers. There were only five survivors, including her commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Godfrey Herbert. HMS D5 HMS ""D5"" was one of eight D-class submarines built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the 20th century. The D-class submarines were designed as improved"
"of five British submarines lying off the German coast, when they were spotted by the German airship ""L9"". The German airship dropped bombs on the British submarines, while ""E5"" fired on ""L9"" with her deck gun. ""E5"" claimed to have hit ""L9"" but the German airship was undamaged. ""L9"" claimed to have sunk one of the British submarines, but while was near-missed by ""L9""s bombs, she too was undamaged. On 25 September 1915 ""E5"" torpedoed the German ""Sperrbrecher"" (auxiliary minesweeper) ""SP11"", causing ""SP11"" to be beached. Salvage attempts on the German ship were abandoned on 27 September. ""E5""s crew was"
"""Sydney"" attacked in an action that lasted over an hour and resulted in the German warship being beached by her captain to avoid his ship sinking. Also that year, ""Birmingham"" became the first ship to sink a submarine when she rammed the German submarine on 9 August. In 1915, HMS ""Glasgow"" found , which had escaped from the engagement at the Falkland Islands the previous year, in which ""Glasgow"" had helped in sinking . ""Dresden"" was eventually scuttled by her own crew after a short engagement. Ships of the class also took part in the Battle of Dogger Bank in"
"Action of 22 September 1914 The Action of 22 September 1914 was a German U-boat ambush that took place during the First World War, in which three obsolete Royal Navy cruisers, manned mainly by reservists and sometimes referred to as the ""livebait squadron"", were sunk by a German submarine while on patrol. About 1,450 British sailors were killed and there was a public outcry in Britain at the losses. The sinkings eroded confidence in the British government and damaged the reputation of the Royal Navy at a time when many countries were still considering which side they might support in"
"SMS V25 SMS ""V25"" was a of the Imperial German Navy that served during the First World War. The ship was built by AG Vulcan at Stettin in Prussia (now Szczecin in Poland), and was completed in June 1914. The ship was sunk by a British mine on 13 February 1915. In 1913, the Imperial German Navy placed orders for 12 high-seas torpedo boats, with six each ordered from AG Vulcan (""V25""–""V30"") and Schichau-Werke (""S31""–""S36""). While the designs built by each shipyard were broadly similar, they differed from each other in detail, and were significantly larger and more capable than"
"deck gun. She had a complement of twenty-one crew members and two officers and a 42-second dive time. SM UB-37 SM ""UB-37"" was a German Type UB II submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 22 July 1915 and launched on 28 December 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 17 June 1916 as SM ""UB-37"". The submarine sank 31 ships in ten patrols. ""UB-37"" was sunk by British Q ship in the English Channel on 14 January 1917. The wreck of ""UB-37"" was identified by"
"did not have any submarines going into World War I but obtained one operational submarine during the war. , was the former French , which ran aground in the Dardanelles on 30 October 1915 and was captured by the Turks. She was returned to France in 1918. The Ottoman Navy also had several minelayers, being the most famous. Her mines laid on 8 March 1915 sank three Allied ships in a small minefield of 20 mines on 18 March 1915. The British pre-dreadnought battleships and and the French battleship were all sunk. The British battle cruiser was also badly damaged."
"fast enough to engage the German warships. On 1 May 1915, the German submarine torpedoed and sank the old British destroyer near the Galloper Light Vessel, off the Thames Estuary. Four destroyers of the Harwich Force, ""Lark"", , ""Lawford"" and ""Leonidas"" set out to hunt for ""Recruit""s assailant. Meanwhile, two German torpedo boats, and , which had been searching for a German floatplane which had ditched, encountered four British trawlers near the North Hinder. One of the trawlers, was sunk by a German torpedo, but the remaining three trawlers survived, with the two German torpedo boats, breaking off the attack"
"SS Arabic (1902) SS ""Arabic"" was a British-registered ocean liner that entered service in 1903 for the White Star Line. She was sunk on 19 August 1915, during the First World War, by German submarine , south of Kinsale, causing a diplomatic incident. ""Arabic"" was originally intended to be ""Minnewaska"", one of four ships ordered from Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Ireland, by the Atlantic Transport Line (ATL), but fell victim to the recession and the shipbuilding rationalization following the ATL's 1902 incorporation into the International Mercantile Marine Company, and was transferred before completion to the White Star Line as ""Arabic""."
"the risk of being torpedoed by enemy submarines. The war was marked by the loss of many liners.""Britannic"", while serving as a hospital ship, sank in the Aegean Sea in 1916 after she struck a mine. Numerous incidents of torpedoing took place and large numbers of ships sank. ""Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse"" was defeated and scuttled after a fierce battle with HMS ""Highflyer"" off the coast of west Africa, while her sister ship ""Kronprinz Wilhelm"" served as a commerce raider. The torpedoing and sinking of on 7 May 1915 caused the loss of 128 American lives at a time when"
"Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) located the remains of ""U-20"" in 1984, about 400 yards from shore. <ref> specs for U20 listed in the U.boat Archive web site SM U-20 (Germany) SM ""U-20"" was a German Type ""U 19"" U-boat built for service in the Imperial German Navy. She was launched on 18 December 1912, and commissioned on 5 August 1913. During World War I, she took part in operations around the British Isles. ""U-20"" became infamous following her sinking of the British ocean liner on 7 May 1915, an act that dramatically reshaped the course of World War I."
"in the Aegean Sea with the loss of seven officers and 217 men. There were only 16 survivors. SS Dresden (1896) The SS ""Dresden"" was a British passenger ship which operated, as such, from 1897 to 1915. She is known as the place of the 1913 disappearance of German engineer Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine. The ship was built in 1897 by the Earle Company at Hull for the Great Eastern Railway. She operated on the North Sea route between Harwich and the Hook of Holland. She was renamed HMS ""Louvain"" in 1915 and was used by the"
"with protecting the German coast from Russian attacks. After her sister ship was sunk in November 1914, she became the flagship of the cruiser squadron in the Baltic. She conducted operations against Russian forces, including bombarding the port of Libau in support of the German Army. She was torpedoed by a British submarine in July 1915, but was able to return to port and was repaired. She was torpedoed a second time on 23 October 1915; the torpedo detonated her ammunition magazines and destroyed the ship. She sank quickly with heavy loss of life; only three men were rescued from"
"mine at 07:03 and sank, becoming the first British naval war loss, with those killed being the first British casualties of the war. SS Königin Luise (1913) SS ""Königin Luise"" was a German steam ferry. She operated between Hamburg and the Netherlands, before being taken over by the Kaiserliche Marine on the outbreak of the First World War. She was used as an auxiliary minelayer before being sunk on 5 August 1914. ""Königin Luise"" was laid down at AG Vulcan Stettin in 1913, and launched on 8 May 1913 for service with the Hamburg America Line. After serving for some"
"RMS Lusitania RMS ""Lusitania"" was a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. The ship was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. The sinking presaged the United States declaration of war on Germany in 1917. The ship was a holder of the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing and was briefly the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her sister ship . The Cunard Line launched ""Lusitania"" in 1906, at a time of fierce competition for the North Atlantic trade. She sank on her"
"hit several times, and unable to escape by submerging sank, with six officers and 21 ratings being rescued, and one man, her commanding officer, being killed. She was sunk by gunfire on 5 June 1915 . SM U-14 (Germany) SM ""U-14"" was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. ""U-14"" was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic. ""U-14"" was damaged by an air raid on the German-occupied port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, on the night of 12 February 1915. On 5 June 1915, ""U-14"""
"including ""Laforey"", were not fast enough to keep up with the battlecruisers. Only seven destroyers of the M class were fast enough to engage the German warships. On 1 May 1915, the old destroyer was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine near the Goodwin Sands, and ""Laforey"" together with three sister ships (, and ) were dispatched to search for the submarine, as were four naval trawlers. Two German torpedo boats, and attacked the trawlers in the Battle off Noordhinder Bank, sinking one (""Columbia"") before the four British destroyers arrived. Although the torpedo boats attempted to escape, the destroyers"
"of the crew died. SS Glenartney (1911) The SS ""Glenartney"" was a British cargo ship that was sunk on 18 March 1915 in the English Channel, south of the Royal Sovereign lightvessel, by a torpedo from . The ship was built by Charles Connell & Co. Ltd., Scotstoun, and owned by Gardiner James & Co. (Western SS Co. & Indian SS Co.), Glasgow, at the time of her loss. She was en route from Bangkok to London with a cargo of rice and meal. Captain J. Craig and 38 of his crew were rescued and landed at Newhaven by a"
"might be carrying guns and which were too small to rescue submarine crews. Britain armed most of its merchant ships with medium calibre guns that could sink a submarine, making above-water attacks too risky. In February 1915, the United States warned Germany about misuse of submarines. On April 22, the German Imperial Embassy warned U.S. citizens against boarding vessels to Britain, which would have to face German attack. On May 7, Germany torpedoed the British passenger liner ""RMS Lusitania"", sinking her. This act of aggression caused the loss of 1,198 civilian lives, including 128 Americans. The sinking of a large,"
"class were lost during World War I in the North and Baltic Seas. was sunk during the Battle of Heligoland Bight on 26 August 1914, one of the first major naval actions of the war. accidentally collided with her sister ship while the pair were cruising in the Jade Bight shortly after midnight on 18 May 1915. ""V150"" sank and 60 of her crew were killed in the accident. On 26 July 1915, was torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine in the North Sea. On 17 December 1915, and the light cruiser ran into a Russian minefield off Windau;"
"SM U-20 (Germany) SM ""U-20"" was a German Type ""U 19"" U-boat built for service in the Imperial German Navy. She was launched on 18 December 1912, and commissioned on 5 August 1913. During World War I, she took part in operations around the British Isles. ""U-20"" became infamous following her sinking of the British ocean liner on 7 May 1915, an act that dramatically reshaped the course of World War I. On 7 May 1915, ""U-20"" was patrolling off the southern coast of Ireland under the command of Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger. Three months earlier, on 4 February, the Germans"
"SM U-15 (Germany) SM ""U-15"" was one of the three Type U 13 gasoline-powered U-boats produced by the German Empire for the Imperial German Navy. On 9 August 1914, ""U-15"" became the first U-boat loss to an enemy warship after it was rammed by British light cruiser . Constructed by Kaiserliche Werft Danzig, ""U-15"" was ordered on 23 February 1909 and was commissioned three years later on 7 July 1912. The boat left port for its first patrol on 1 August 1914, but on 9 August, ""U-15"" was forced to lie stopped on the surface off the coast of Fair"
"May 1915, during World War I, Lady Allan, along with daughters Anna, 16, and Gwen, 15, were aboard the when it was sunk by German U-boat . After she and her daughters jumped into the water, Lady Allan was severely injured. While she was rescued, both daughters drowned. Anna's body was never found, but Gwendolyn's was recovered the next day and returned to Montreal for burial. Rita Jolivet, the future wife of Sir Montagu's Scottish cousin, Jimmy Allan, was also a passenger on the Lusitania. Two years after this tragedy, the war claimed a third child, Hugh, who was killed"
"and one Uk L/30 deck gun. She had a complement of twenty-one crew members and two officers and a 42-second dive time. SM UB-31 SM ""UB-31"" was a German Type UB II submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 22 July 1915 and launched on 16 November 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 25 March 1916 as SM ""UB-31"". The submarine sank 26 ships in 25 patrols. ""UB-31"" was depth charged and sunk by British warships , , and in the English Channel on 2"
"long to clear the Russian minefields to allow the minelayer to lay a minefield of her own. On 16 August 1915, ""Posen"" and ""Nassau"" led a second attempt to breach the defenses of the gulf, with ""Posen"" as Admiral Schmidt's flagship. The two dreadnoughts were accompanied by 4 light cruisers and 31 torpedo boats. On the first day of the assault the Germans broke through the Russian forces, but two German light craft—the minesweeper and the destroyer —were sunk. ""Posen"" and ""Nassau"" engaged a pair of Russian gunboats, and . ""Sivuch"" was sunk that day and ""Korietz"" was severely damaged;"