Word: athenia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Collision Course, by Alvin Moscow, about the Andrea Doria disaster, and Tomorrow Never Came, by Max Caulfield, about the torpedoing of the British liner Athenia, are memorable accounts of nights to remember...
Collision Course, by Alvin Moscow, about the Andrea Doria disaster, and Tomorrow Never Came, by Max Caulfield, about the torpedoing of the British liner Athenia, are memorable accounts of nights to remember...
Collision Course, by Alvin Mosca, an account of the Andrea Doria disaster, and Tomorrow Never Came, by Max Caulfield, the story of the torpedoed British liner Athenia, skillfully raise ghost ships from the depths of forgetfulness...
...little (13,500 tons) single-stacked British liner Athenia was known for comfort and informality-her slow crossings rarely attracted millionaires or celebrities. She sailed from Liverpool with 1,102 passengers (including 311 Americans) the day before Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, and she had hardly pushed into the Atlantic when Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, commanding the Nazi submarine U-30, got orders to open hostilities. It was twilight, and Lemp thought she was an armed merchant cruiser-legitimate prey...
Lemp fired four torpedoes. One hit. It took 112 lives, including 16 children and 69 women, some of whom jumped to suicide when their children drowned. From Athenia's SOS, Lemp learned his victim's name. "So eine Schweinerei!" he exploded: "Warum fährt der aber auch abgeblendet?" (What a mess! But why was she blacked out?) The British called it murder. Goebbels screamed that the villain Churchill had ordered Athenia sunk by British forces, to make a new Lusitania incident and drag the U.S. again into...