From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Mon Feb 06 2006 - 06:24:23 PST
And it may have been carrying passengers, which I would lean with.
Sonny
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> Probably was carrying war material to Europe despite
From: "Rick v100" <rickv100@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] history - WWI 1917 German sub sinks U.S. passenger ship
California
> the Neutrality Act.
>
> Rick
>
>
> --- Everette <194cbteng@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> February 6
>>
>> 1917 German sub sinks U.S. passenger ship California
>> Just three days after U.S. President Woodrow
>> Wilson's speech of February 3,
>> 1917-in which he broke diplomatic relations with
>> Germany and warned that war
>> would follow if American interests at sea were again
>> assaulted-a German
>> submarine torpedoes and sinks the Anchor Line
>> passenger steamer California
>> off the Irish coast.
>>
>> The explosion of the torpedo was so violent and
>> devastating that the
>> 470-foot, 9,000-ton steamer sank just nine minutes
>> after the attack. Despite
>> desperate S.O.S. calls sent by the crew to ensure
>> the arrival of rescue
>> ships, 38 people drowned after the initial
>> explosion, for a total of 43
>> dead.
>> This type of blatant German defiance of Wilson's
>> warning about the
>> consequences of unrestricted submarine warfare
>> drove Wilson and the United
>> States to take the final steps towards war. On April
>> 2, Wilson went before
>> Congress to deliver his war message; the formal
>> declaration of U.S. entrance
>> into the First World War came four days later.
>>
>> Everette
>> Deo adiuvante
>>
>>
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