APPENDIX II The following memorandum1 has been prepared by the Department of State to show the submarine outrages which have directly affected American interests: American ships damaged or destroyed by German submarines. SHIPS SUNK WITH LOSS OF AMERICAN LIVES British ship Falaba, torpedoed March 28, 1915 (warned); 1 American lost. British ship Lusitania, torpedoed May 7, 1915 (no warning); 114 Americans lost. 1 Published in the Congressional Record, 65th Congress, 1st Session, p. 1006 (April 23, 1917). American ship Gulflight, torpedoed May 1, 1915 (no warning); 2 Americans lost. British ship Armenian, torpedoed June 28, 1915 (ordered to stop; tried to escape); 23 Americans lost. British ship Iberian, sunk July 31, 1915 (tried to escape; stopped by shell fire); 3 Americans lost. British ship Anglo-Californian, sunk July 4, 1915; 2 Americans lost. British ship Hesperian, torpedoed September 4, 1915 (no warning); 1 American lost. British ship Arabic, torpedoed August 19, 1915 (no warning); 3 Americans lost. British ship Persia, believed to have been torpedoed; sunk December 30, 1915 (no warning); 2 Americans lost. Italian ship Ancona, torpedoed November 9, 1915 (no warning); 7 Americans lost. British ship Englishman, torpedoed March 27, 1916; 6 Americans lost (1 more whose nationality is doubtful). British ship Sabota, sunk by gunfire October 20, 1916; 1 American lost. British ship Marina, sunk by gunfire October 28, 1916 (warned); 8 Americans lost. British ship Russian, torpedoed December 14, 1916 (no warning); 17 Americans lost. British ship Eaveston, sunk by shell fire February 5, 1917; 1 American lost (1 other whose nationality is doubtful). British ship Vedamore, torpedoed February 7, 1917 (no warning); 10 Americans lost. British ship Turino, torpedoed February 7, 1917 (no warning); 1 American (?) lost. French ship Athos, torpedoed February 22, 1917 (no warning); 1 American lost. British ship Laconia, torpedoed February 26, 1917 (no warning); 8 Americans lost. Norwegian ship Sjostad, believed torpedoed March 2, 1917 (no warning); 1 American lost. American ship Vigilancia, torpedoed March 16, 1917 (no warning); 5 Americans lost. American ship Healdton, torpedoed March 21, 1917 (no warning); 7 Americans lost. British ship Crispin, torpedoed March 29, 1917 (no warning); 68 Americans on board, 1 killed, 18 missing. Total, 226 American lives lost. On the Lusitania there were also 24 children born of foreign parents on American soil. Carib (American), February 23, 1915 (mined); 1 American lost. Koophandel (Belgian), August 1, 1915 (torpedoed); 1 American lost. Batavier V (Dutch), May 16, 1916 (mined); 1 American lost. Alaunia (British), October 19, 1916 (possibly mined); 1 American lost (statement unreliable). Cabotia (British), October 20, 1916 (torpedoed); 1 American lost. Palermo (Italian), December 2, 1916 (torpedoed); 1 American lost. Galgorm Castle (British), February 27, 1917 (torpedoed); 2 Americans lost. Argo (Portuguese), March 23, 1917 (torpedoed); 3 Americans lost. Aztec (American), April 1, 1917 (torpedoed); 28 missing. Number of Americans lost not established. INDEX Admiral Ganteaume, the, sunk American Civil War, starva- Ancona, sinking of the, 138 ff; Arabia, sinking of the, 193. Armed merchant vessels, 31 n, 65; German policy towards, Armed neutrality, 211 ff; in- ration of London, 42; muni- Baty, T., quoted, 13 n. 75 n, 84 n, 108, 228; note on Berwindale, sinking of the, 171. Bryan, Secretary of State, pro- Caprivi, Count, 37. Chemung, sinking of the, 194. the, 217. Columbian, sinking of the, 193. Crimean War and doctrine of continuous voyage, 45. Cymric, sinking of the, 189. Declaration of London, disre- purpose of, 41; ratification gress, 223. Decree of January 31, 1917, Eagle Point, sinking of the, 171. Falaba, sinking of the, 60, 72, Famine, as method of warfare, Food supply of Germany, 230. nition shipments, 120. |