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Battle or Action:
SS Joshua Nicholson, Sinking of
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Wrecksite EU shows "The British steamer Joshua Nicholson was torpedoed by a German submarine without warning at 6.30 a.m. on the 18th March, 1917. She began to settle down very rapidly, with a heavy list to starboard. While the port lifeboat was being lowered she capsized, and three men were drowned. Another man was blown into the water by an explosion. After the ship had gone down, six men came to the surface and clung to pieces of wreckage. Of these, three sank during the next five hours, the remaining three being picked up at about 5 p.m., exhausted but alive."
North East War Memorials Project elaborates further "She was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 70 in the Atlantic Ocean off Wolf Rock, on a voyage from London to Alexandria, Egypt with general cargo. No warning was given and there were 26 casualties." |
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