Attack on Orleans

Когда

21 июл. 1918 г.

Вид

Военная операция

Координаты

41.79° N, 69.99° W

Description

1918 German U-boat raid off Massachusetts, US

1918 German U-boat raid off Massachusetts, US

The attack on Orleans was a naval and air action during World War I on 21 July 1918 when U-156, a German submarine, that had sunk a US cruiser with a mine, a few days earlier, fired on a small convoy of barges led by a tugboat off Orleans, Massachusetts, on the eastern coast of the Cape Cod peninsula. A tug Perth Amboy, three barges and a schooner, also on tow were attacked.

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