U-20
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…ere they were headed, and what orders 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.…
- Captain Turner’s Orders…f and begin the 202nd crossing of her service, the crossing that would take her past the Old Head of Kinsale and into the patrol zone where U-20 was even now moving through the water, running on batteries, carrying her complement of torpedoes, under the command of a thirty-year-old K…
- The Submarine’s Patrol…of thirty-four men went about their work in the confined space below. Schwieger had cleared the minefields and the patrols. He had brought U-20 through the most dangerous passage in the world. Now he faced a choice. The submarine carried seven torpedoes. She had left Emden on 30 Apr…