by Cathal Cudden | Jan 30, 2021 | Blog
SS Ausonia The 8,133 gross ton Ausonia of Liverpool was sunk by a torpedo and shellfire from the German submarine U-62, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Ernst Hashagen, on 30th May 1918, about 588 miles W by S¾S (true) of the Fastnet Rock Lighthouse in approximate...
by Cathal Cudden | Oct 15, 2020 | Blog
SS Storstad The 6,028 gross ton Storstad of Khristiania (Oslo) was sunk by torpedo and gunfire from the German submarine U-62, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Ernst Hashagen, on 8th March 1917, approximately 84 miles west from the Fastnet Rock Lighthouse in position Lat...
by Cathal Cudden | Oct 15, 2020 | Blog
SS Marina The best-known event involving lightkeepers on the Skelligs in the First World War was their participation in the rescue of two boatloads of survivors from the 5,204 gross ton Marina of Glasgow which was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-55,...
by Cathal Cudden | Oct 15, 2020 | Blog
The Lusitania Incident By the end of April 1915, approximately 100 British, Allied and neutral merchant vessels had been sunk by U-boat action, but it took the sinking of the 30,396 gross ton RMS Lusitania on 7th May 1915, with the loss of over 1,200 civilian lives...
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