Chronological List of U.S. Ships Sunk or Damaged 1939 to 1941
Alphabetical list of U.S. ships sunk or damaged. www.USMM.org ©1998 - 2006. You may quote material on this web page as long as you cite American Merchant Marine at War, www.usmm.org, as the source. You may not use more than a few lines without permission.
1942 — June 15, passenger ship Cherokee sunk by U-boat, …
Clancey: “U.S. tanker Cherokee, in convoy XB 25, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-87 approximately 50 miles east of Boston, Massachusetts, 42°11’N, 69°25’W; 65 of the 103-man crew, as well as one of the 11-man Armed Guard and …
List of maritime disasters in World War I - Wikipedia
HMS Cressy, HMS Aboukir & HMS Hogue – In the action of 22 September 1914, three British ships were sunk by SM U-9. After Aboukir was torpedoed it was mistakenly thought that the ship had hit a mine and the remaining ships approached to rescue the crew. Hogue and then Cressy were then torpedoed and sunk. 1,397 men were lost; 837 were rescued.
Ships hit by U-boats in World War Two (WWII) - uboat.net
Includes a map showing positions of all ships hit during each month. The motor tanker San Arcadio, hit by U-107 (Harald Gelhaus) on 31 Jan 1942. This database in always in very heavy maintenance and this page shows the latest updates on allied ships hit.
Sixaola (American Steam passenger ship) - Ships hit by German U-boats …
At 04.12 hours on 13 June 1942 the unescorted Sixaola (Master William H. Fagan) was hit on the starboard side by two torpedoes from U-159, while steaming on a righthand zigzag pattern at 12.5 knots about 50 miles off Bocas del Toro, Panama. The first torpedo struck in the bow and the second in the center of #2 hold.
List of the largest ships hit by U-boats in World War I
This list contains the approximately 100 ships over 10,000 tons that were either damaged or sunk by U-boats by torpedoes, submarine-laid mines, gunfire, or other means. [ Note 1 ] List
The U-Boat War: the hidden underbelly that defined WWII
Jan 19, 2023 · In World War II, more than 3,400 Allied ships were sunk in the Atlantic Ocean, an average of almost three ships for each day the U.S. was in the European war. Winston Churchill stated in his memoirs that “the only thing that ever really …
U-Boat Attacks Of World War II - New England Historical Society
The last U-boat was sunk in American waters during the Battle of Point Judith off the Rhode Island coast. U-853 sank a collier ship on May 5, days before Germany surrendered. The U-boat was sunk that evening by four warships, Coast Guard cutters, a …
City of New York (American Motor passenger ship) - uboat.net
The U-boat circled the stern at a distance of about 250 yards and fired off the starboard quarter another torpedo as coup de grâce at 19.47 hours that struck on the starboard side at #4 hold, causing the ship to sink by the stern about 20 minutes after the first hit.
Gulf shipwrecks are ghostly reminders of Nazis off Louisiana coast
Jul 15, 2014 · Nazi propaganda films trumpeted the triumph of Hitler's U-boats, which sank almost 2,800 allied ships, 549 of them American, most infamously in the north Atlantic.
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