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 […]
U-Boats New England: Atlantic States Atlantic States, US-flagged tanker. Source: The Mariner’s Museum, Newport News VA, http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/3484.html The steam turbine-propelled tanker Atlantic States was built by the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Chester, Pennsylvania in 1943. She was ordered in January 1941 and owned by the Atlantic Refining Company of Philadelphia, which […]
U-Boats of New England: The Angelus The Angelus, showing her square-rigged masts up forward and the fore-and-aft rigged mast aft. Source: http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/2932.html The Angelus was a large sailing barkentine (bark or barque) built in France which was over 338 gross registered tons and sported three large masts and a bowsprit as long as most […]
U-Boats in New England Starting weeks after Hitler declared war on the United States, 73 German U-Boats sustainably attacked New England waters, from Montauk New York to the tip of Nova Scotia at Cape Sable. More about this book… U-Boats in the Bahamas The untold story of over 250 men who made it ashore in […]
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