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Dazzle Ship
Victo Ngai
I am very excited to share with you my debut children’s book, Dazzle Ship, authored by Chris Barton and published by Lerner Book.
Dazzle Ship is the story behind the thousands of war ships painted with bold colors and crazy patterns during WW1.
Sounds interesting? You can get a copy anywhere books are sold in American or online here.
Big thanks to Chris Barton, AD Danielle Carnito and Editor Carol Hinz for getting me acquainted with this colorful piece of history and being so wonderful to work with!
Video and photos by Munira, Music by Bensound.
17 July 1918
RMSCarpathia sank off the coast of Ireland after being torpedoed by a German U-boat on this day in history, 17 July 1918. Carpathia made her maiden voyage in 1903 and became famous for rescuing the survivors of RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg and sank in April 1912. Carpathia was used during World War I to transport American and Canadian troops across the Atlantic.
On the summer morning of 17 July 1918 she was torpedoed in the Celtic Sea by the Imperial German Navy U-boat, U-55. Of three torpedoes fired at the ship, one impacted the port side while another penetrated the engine room, killing two firemen and three trimmers. All 57 passengers and 218 surviving crew members boarded lifeboats as the vessel sank. U-55 surfaced and fired a third torpedo into the ship and was approaching the lifeboats when the Azalea-class sloop HMS Snowdrop arrived on the scene and drove away the U-boat with gunfire before picking up the survivors from Carpathia.
A German SM U-118 U-Boat lays washed ashore on Hastings beach. While it was being towed through the English Channel to be broken up for scrap, a storm hit and the ship broke off from its tow boat and drifted away. It later ran aground on the beach at Hastings. The wreck quickly became a popular tourist attraction. Eventually, it was broken up and the pieces removed and sold for scrap. It is believed that some of the keel from the submarine may still lie underneath the sand of the beach. 5th of April 1919.
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Mock-up conning tower of the U-96, featured in the classic Das Boöt.
It also appeared in the lesser-known Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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