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31 May 1918: U-90: Walter Remy Torpedoed and sunk, most lives saved Laconia: Passenger ship United Kingdom: 18,099 25 February 1917: U-50: Gerhard Berger USS Minnesota [a] Battleship United States Navy: 18,000 29 September 1918: U-117: Otto Dröscher HMS Britannia: Battleship Royal Navy: 16,350 9 November 1918: UB-50: Heinrich Kukat USS ...
3,060, as troopship SS Transylvania was a British passenger liner of the Anchor Line , a subsidiary of the Cunard Line and a sister ship to SS Tuscania . She was torpedoed and sunk on 4 May 1917 by the German U-boat SM U-63 at 44°15′N 8°30′E / 44.250°N 8.500°E / 44.250; 8.500 while carrying Allied troops to Egypt and sank ...
In 1918, they were rarely able to sink more than 300,000 long tons (300,000 t). Between May 1917 and the end of the war on 11 November 1918, only 154 of 16,539 vessels convoyed across the Atlantic had been sunk, of which 16 were lost through the natural perils of sea travel and a further 36 because they were stragglers.
She made a single voyage as a troopship, carrying troops from the 41st Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, arriving in England on 28 October 1914. [8] In 1915 she was tied up in England on the River Thames as an accommodation ship for German prisoners of war. In March 1915, she resumed service as a troopship. [2] [7] [9]
Caserta departed New York 10 May 1918 on the first of five convoy voyages to Europe before the war's end—carrying elements of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division's 47th Infantry Regiment, who called her a "cattle boat"—and accompanied by U.S. Navy transports President Lincoln, Covington, Rijndam, UK troopship Dwinsk, and Italian steamship Dante ...
The ship was ordered on 3 March 1914, intended for the Ocean Steamship Company's Trans-Pacific Service, and was built at the yard of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd at Greenock on the River Clyde in Scotland. On completion in November 1916, she was taken-up as a troopship by the Admiralty under the Liner Requisition Scheme. [2]