U-Boats New England: Lark The fishing schooner Lark in Boston Harbor following its attack, which made national news. Source: Author’s collection. The fishing schooner Lark was built in 1922 in Newcastle, Maine. It was 148 tons and owned by F. J. O’Hara Brothers Company of Boston, Massachusetts. This was a famous family with a dynasty […]
U-Boats New England: Liverpool Packet SS Liverpool Packet under her previous name, Sonia, owned by Warren, F. K. – hence the W. prominently displayed on the stack. Source: http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1724.html The steam cargo ship Liverpool Packet was built in 1926 as the Norwegian ship Nidarnes by the Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. shipyard in Wallsend, […]
U-Boats New England: Hertford The steamship Hertford was launched in 1917 in Germany as a general cargo ship of 10,923 gross tons. Her builder was Bremer Vulkan of Vegesack and her launched name was Rheinland, however due to the exigencies of World War I she was not completed for the Hamburg-Amerika Linie (Hapag) […]
Attack Narratives Abgara Afoundria Amazone Andrew Jackson Anglo-Canadian Astrea Athelqueen Barbara Bloody Marsh Cape of Good Hope Cardonia Carmen Catahoula Charles Racine Cheerio Cherry Valley Cities Service Empire City of Alma Clan Skene Colabee Comol Rico Cygnet Darina Daytonian Delfina Delisle Delmundo Derryheen Domino Eclipse Esparta Esso Gettysburg Esso Baton Rouge Esso Boston Everalda Everelza […]
U-Boats New England: Fort Qu’Appelle Smiling survivors of Fort Qu’Appelle, with much to be grateful for, aboard HMCS Melville on 20 May 1942 after they had been sunk with the loss of 13 crewmates on a maiden voyage. Source: uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/2684.html The British steamship Fort Qu’Appelle was built in the North Sands […]
U-Boats New England: Fort Binger Free French flag, Source: revolvy.com/main/index The steam ship Fort Binger was ordered in July of 1917 and delivered by shipyard Craig, Taylor and Company Limited of Stockton-on-Tees, UK in June 1919. In 1942 at the time of this attack she was owned by William Thompson and […]
U-Boats New England: Cornwallis SS Cornwallis under her previous name of Canadian Transporter. Source: State Library of New South Wales, Australia. uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/3382.html The Cornwallis was a steam ship of 5,458 gross tons which was the 20th ship built by J. Coughlan and Sons of Vancouver, BC. Originally from launch in 1921 her […]
U-Boats New England: Cherokee SS Cherokee, showing the side where two torpedoes from U-87 struck her in June, 1941. Courtesy of the Rich Turnwald collection, Source: uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1818.html The loss of the steamship Cherokee in convoy off Cape Cod is remarkable as the casualty with the most deaths of any loss in New England […]
U-Boats New England: Black Point SS Black Point as the Fairmont, from the US Navy Historical Center Photograph #NH70454. Source: http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/3509.html The coal carrying steam ship Black Point was built at the New York Ship Building Corporation of Camden NJ in 1918 as the Fairmont for Coastwise Transportation Incorporated of Boston. The […]
U-Boats New England: Berganger Source: http://warsailors.com/singleships/berganger.htmland Bjørn Milde’s postcard collection. The Norwegian cargo ship Berganger was ordered in February 1931 for Westfal-Larsen and Company A/S of Bergen, Norway. She was built by the Netherlands Dock and Ship Building Company, or Nederlandsche Dok & Scheepsbouw Mij V o F in Amsterdam and […]