HMS Otranto was an armed merchant cruiser requisitioned by the British Admiralty when World War I began in 1914. Built before the war for the UK–Australia...
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P & O liner. Collided on 6 October 1918 with HMS Otranto (which sank off the west coast of Islay). HMS Kashmir (F12) — a K-class destroyer launched in...
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Scott & Robertson. Many Were Held by the Sea: The Tragic Sinking of HMS Otranto. p. 16. Battle of the Falkland Islands Archived 10 April 2020 at the...
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The Otranto Barrage was an Allied naval blockade of the Strait of Otranto between Brindisi in Italy and Corfu on the Greek side of the Adriatic Sea in...
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Look up Otranto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Otranto is a city in Italy. Otranto may also refer to: HMS Otranto Otranto Township, Mitchell County...
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of the Strait of Otranto of 1917 was the result of an Austro-Hungarian raid during the Adriatic Campaign of World War I on the Otranto Barrage, an Allied...
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armed merchant cruiser HMS Otranto and, in 1918, was lost as a result of a collision. In the Second World War the second Otranto was converted into a troop...
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requisitioned for service as a troopship. She collided with the troopship HMS Otranto in 1918 which subsequently ran aground on the Isle of Islay with great...
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(Sister ship to Titanic) SS Orontes HMS Otranto SS Oxfordshire RMS Queen Mary RMS Queen Elizabeth HMT Rohna HMS Tamar USS Von Steuben (ex Kronprinz Wilhelm)...
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Grand Harbour of Valletta in which four ships were sunk: the battleship HMS Russell; the sloop Nasturtium; HMT Crownsin, sunk 4 May 1916 with the loss...
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armoured cruisers HMS Good Hope (flagship) and HMS Monmouth, the modern light cruiser HMS Glasgow, and the armed merchantman HMS Otranto. The Admiralty had...
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HMS Otranto was involved in a collision with HMS Kashmir in heavy seas while similarly transporting American Doughboys from New York Harbor. Otranto lost...
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HMS Ajax was a Leander-class light cruiser which served with the Royal Navy during World War II. She became famous for her part in the Battle of the River...
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SMS G41 4 Oct: HMS L10, SM UB-68, Oceania 5 Oct: USS Mary Alice, SM UB-10, SM UB-40, SM UB-59, SM UC-4 6 Oct: HMS C12, HMS Otranto 7 Oct: USS West Gate...
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SMS G41 4 Oct: HMS L10, SM UB-68, Oceania 5 Oct: USS Mary Alice, SM UB-10, SM UB-40, SM UB-59, SM UC-4 6 Oct: HMS C12, HMS Otranto 7 Oct: USS West Gate...
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Duchess of Bedford, Monarch of Bermuda, HMS Hood, HMS Warspite, HMS Barham, HMS Resolution, HMS Repulse, HMS Furious, December 1939. Meanwhile, a massive...
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the kindness of local people in shipwreck tragedies of SS Tuscania and HMS Otranto. Robertson was educated at Dunoon Grammar School and studied economics...
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two ships in 1918 – the liner Tuscania and the armed merchant cruiser HMS Otranto. The area around the memorial is an RSPB nature reserve, where chough...
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– Taiwan MS Oslofjord 1938 Struck a mine and sank in 1941 HMS Otranto 1909 Collided with HMS Kashmir, and sank on October 6, 1918 SS Otway 1909 Torpedoed...
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The Action in the Strait of Otranto [also the Battle of the Strait of Otranto (1940)] was the destruction of an Italian convoy on 12 November 1940 during...
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destroy him, armed with his flagship, HMS Glasgow, HMS Monmouth, and HMS Otranto. Admiral Spee's two armoured and three light cruisers sank two Royal...
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SMS G41 4 Oct: HMS L10, SM UB-68, Oceania 5 Oct: USS Mary Alice, SM UB-10, SM UB-40, SM UB-59, SM UC-4 6 Oct: HMS C12, HMS Otranto 7 Oct: USS West Gate...
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cruiser. She spent most of the rest of the war blockading the Straits of Otranto and the Dardanelles to prevent German, Austro-Hungarian and Turkish warships...
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enquiries from America on family members lost on Tuscania (and in the 1918 HMS Otranto sinking). The loss of the Tuscania prompted the government of Washburn...
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SMS G41 4 Oct: HMS L10, SM UB-68, Oceania 5 Oct: USS Mary Alice, SM UB-10, SM UB-40, SM UB-59, SM UC-4 6 Oct: HMS C12, HMS Otranto 7 Oct: USS West Gate...
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the loss of 210 souls. Also most of the 358 American victims of the HMS Otranto tragedy were reinterred in Brookwood. After the entry of the United States...
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was the wreck of HMS Otranto in October 1918, shortly before the end of the Great War. A navigation error caused it to collide with HMS Kashmir. The casualty...
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(1994). A Naval History of World War I. London: Routledge. p. 386. "The HMS Bulwark Explosion". Disasters in Medway. 2009. Archived from the original...
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SMS G41 4 Oct: HMS L10, SM UB-68, Oceania 5 Oct: USS Mary Alice, SM UB-10, SM UB-40, SM UB-59, SM UC-4 6 Oct: HMS C12, HMS Otranto 7 Oct: USS West Gate...
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