Walther Schwieger
Books
- Eighteen Minutes The Sinking of the Lusitania and the Eighteen Minutes That Changed the World · Liszt Think
On May 7, 1915, a single torpedo from U-20 struck the Lusitania off the Old Head of Kinsale.
- A Notice in the Newspapers…rs they carried. As the liner steamed across the ocean, the Admiralty had been tracking the movements of U-20, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger, through wireless intercepts. The problem was that this intelligence was highly classified. Sharing it with merchant shipping would reveal…
- Captain Turner’s Orders…through the water, running on batteries, carrying her complement of torpedoes, under the command of a thirty-year-old Kapitänleutnant named Walther Schwieger. The two men did not know each other. They had never met, would never meet. One was a British merchant captain with forty years of experien…
- The Submarine’s PatrolThe submarine surfaced at half past six in the evening, and Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger climbed through the conning tower hatch into the last light of 4 May 1915. The North Sea lay behind him. Ahead, the Atlantic opened toward…