21 July 1918: The Attack on Orleans—Beaches & a marsh near Orleans, Massachusetts were shelled & the tugboat Perth Amboy heavily damaged, & her four barges sunk, by the German u-boat S.M. U-156; the U.S Coast Guard dispatched boats that rescued, under fire, all thirty-two sailors from the tugboat & barges; the U.S. Navy dispatched aeroplanes to bomb the U-156, but she escaped.
Lest we forget.
Bonus!
19 July 1918: The U.S.S. San Diego ACR-6, originally named the U.S.S. California, sank ten miles south of Fire Island, New York, after striking a mine, probably laid by the S.M. U-156; six men died.
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