Skip to content
Home
Favourites
0
Advanced search
Shopping cart
0
Register
Log in
Images of Edinburgh
Browse map
Area A - Z
Browse by date
Exhibitions
Current exhibition
All exhibitions
Collections
About the collections
Browse by theme
Subject A - Z
The image library for the collections of Edinburgh Libraries and Museums and Galleries
Images of Edinburgh
Browse map
Area A - Z
Browse by date
Exhibitions
Current exhibition
All exhibitions
Collections
About the collections
Browse by theme
Subject A - Z
Subject matches "Kaisers" or its children
Back to search results
The "U" Boat Fighting the Unarmed Off America
Raemaekers, Louis, 1917, Chromolithograph
Item
of 55
The "U" Boat Fighting the Unarmed Off America
The "U" Boat Fighting the Unarmed Off America
Add to favourites
Share
Item record
About this image
Related
Location
Category
Library Item
Item no
32923
Title
The "U" Boat Fighting the Unarmed Off America
Description
"Mind, I'm operating at but not inside your gate; tomorrow I'll come inside to bring you a letter from my Kaiser."
"The 'U 53' flying the Imperial German Flag unexpectedly appeared at Newport, Rhode Island, on 7 October 1916. It was escorted into Newport Harbour by a United States submarine and ran in, passing thirty-seven ships of the U.S. Atlantic fleet. After a short stay for delivering letters it left. It subsequently destroyed just off the coast eight vessels, of which four were British and one Dutch (the 'Bloomersdijk,' a freighter, 4,850 tons from New York to London). An American vessel, the 'Kansas' was stopped. As regards the 'Stephano,' a British Red Cross liner, the submarine began firing at it and finding that the presence of United States destroyers, the 'Benham' and 'McDougall,' impeded its aim, it requested them to move out of its way. The request was complied with, and the submarine launched a torpedo at the 'Stephano' and sank it."
Artist / maker
Raemaekers, Louis
Date
1917
Size
36.2 x 25.8 cm
Type
Chromolithograph
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
.
The
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
have published a book of his works entitled, 'Louis Raemaekers - with pen and pencil as a weapon'.
Exhibitions with this item
Other views of this item
Related images
Related subjects
Events
>
Wars
Events
>
Wars
>
World wars
People
>
Military activities
>
Sailors
People
>
Politics and government
People
>
Politics and government
>
Kaisers
Places
>
North America
>
United States of America
Transport
>
Water
>
Submarines
More like this