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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.
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.
List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1915 Ship State Description HMS Formidable Royal Navy A German drawing of HMS Formidable sinking. World War I: The Formidable-class battleship was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel 20 nautical miles (37 km) off Start Point, Devon by SM U-24 ( Imperial German Navy) with the loss of 547 of her 780 crew.
Map showing the movements of RMS Lusitania and SM U-20 prior to the sinking of the former. Marked are ships sunk by U-20 on 6 and 7 May and key geographic points. On 7 May 1915, Lusitania was nearing the end of her 202nd crossing, bound for Liverpool from New York, and was scheduled to dock at the Prince's Landing Stage later that afternoon ...
The Lusitania was a much larger and faster ship, with a better chance of evading or ramming, though commercial vessels only successfully sunk a submarine through ramming once during the war (in 1918 the White Star Liner HMT Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic and Britannic, rammed SM U-103 in the English Channel).
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 ...
The list of shipwrecks in June 1915 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during June 1915. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Californian was sunk in the Eastern Mediterranean during World War I on 9 November 1915 by the German submarines SM U-34 and U-35, while serving as a transport ship. Construction and early career [ edit ]