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SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24 July 1915, the ship rolled over onto its side while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. [1] In total, 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
The whaler caught fire and sank off Coats Island, Northwest Territories, Canada in September or October 1915. Advance United Kingdom: The auxiliary schooner was wrecked in Wreck Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Alexander Mackenzie United States: The US Army Corps of Engineers dredge sank while under tow off the east coast. Five crew were killed.
The passenger ship capsized and sank in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water at her dock at Cicero, Illinois due to being top heavy because of new US Government rules requiring more lifeboats, with the loss of 4 crew and either 812 or 840 passengers.
View from UC-21 of Illinois sinking. On 17 March, the day after Vigilancia was sunk, U-boats stopped and sank to the cargo ship City of Memphis and the tanker Illinois. In those two cases the U-boats had followed surfaced; forced the ship to heave to; and allowed the crew to abandon her without loss of life before sinking her.
List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1915 Ship State Description Elida Sweden: World War I: The cargo ship was sunk in the North Sea 190 nautical miles (350 km) east of the Farne Islands, United Kingdom) by SM U-38 ( Imperial German Navy). Her crew survived. [70] Fulgent United Kingdom
U-boats sunk in 1915 (1 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Maritime incidents in 1915" ... Endurance (1912 ship) HMS Erne (1903) SS Espagne (Anversois, 1909) F. USS F-4;
The attack came just months before a German U-boat attacked and sank the Lusitania, a passenger liner, off the coast of Ireland in May 1915, according to the National WWI Museum and Memorial ...
List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1915 Ship State Description Dania Russia: World War I: The cargo ship was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 55 nautical miles (102 km) north by west of the Butt of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom by SM U-33 ( Imperial German Navy). [79] Intrepid United Kingdom