Post by Administrator on Jan 26, 2019 1:36:55 GMT
On 26th January 1918, twelve crew members were killed, when an Irish steamship, the Cork, was torpedoed by a U-boat off Point Lynas in Anglesey.
This followed the Kaiser declaring in 1915, that the waters around the British Isles were a war zone and he also instructed U-boat captains to sink merchant and neutral ships without warning. Subsequently, over 6,000 such vessels were sunk during World War One, including the RMS Lusitania with the loss 1,198 lives. To counteract the threat, Britain introduced escorted convoys which ultimately allowed enough Allied shipping to survive.
This followed the Kaiser declaring in 1915, that the waters around the British Isles were a war zone and he also instructed U-boat captains to sink merchant and neutral ships without warning. Subsequently, over 6,000 such vessels were sunk during World War One, including the RMS Lusitania with the loss 1,198 lives. To counteract the threat, Britain introduced escorted convoys which ultimately allowed enough Allied shipping to survive.
