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Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918
Posted by: Lee Edwards ()
Date: May 09, 2004 08:59AM

My grandfather was aboard the British transport Persic (12,042 tons) which was sunk by a U-Boat while carrying two thousand eight hundred United States troops, torpedoed two hundred miles off English coast. All on board survived.

My grandfather's letters home indicated that the U-Boat was sunk, however I cannot find any record on a U-Boat being sunk on that date.

Does anyone know which U-Boat torpedoed the Persic?

There is some confusion because apparently there was a White Star liner named the Persic that was torpedoed in the Mediterranean, but this was NOT the ship my grandfather was on.

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Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Lee Edwards 05/09/2004 08:59AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Michael Lowrey 05/09/2004 09:17AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Lee Edwards 05/09/2004 09:41AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Dänemark 05/09/2004 10:00AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Lee Edwards 05/11/2004 08:36AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Dänemark 05/11/2004 10:46AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Dänemark 05/12/2004 07:11AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Lee Edwards 05/14/2004 05:11PM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Dänemark 05/21/2004 02:45PM
Re: Persic attacked September 6, 1918 by UB 87 Franklyn K. Brown 05/22/2004 03:28PM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Franklyn K. Brown 05/17/2004 08:18AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Stephen 02/02/2012 06:37AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Stephen 02/02/2012 06:54AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Dänemark 05/09/2004 03:40PM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Lee Edwards 05/09/2004 09:49PM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Franklyn K. Brown 05/15/2004 02:46PM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Michael Lowrey 05/15/2004 08:23PM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Franklyn K. Brown 05/16/2004 06:34AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Franklyn K. Brown 05/31/2004 06:16PM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Franklyn K. Brown 06/01/2004 06:31AM
Position JP 05/27/2004 03:38PM
Re: Position Franklyn K. Brown 05/28/2004 02:29PM
Re: Position Franklyn K. Brown 05/31/2004 06:03PM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 John Chamblee 02/28/2012 03:11AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Franklyn K. Brown 05/17/2004 07:16AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Mark Carlson 11/22/2005 09:57PM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Michael Vazzana 11/21/2007 09:40PM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Elaine Dillin 02/26/2011 07:08PM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 eugene granger 03/28/2011 03:30AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Raymond Lloyd 11/25/2007 06:37PM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 Elaine Dillin 02/26/2011 02:58AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 TomM 05/08/2011 04:35PM
Re: Persic Damaged September 7, 1918 Michael Lowrey 05/09/2011 03:29AM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 David Brine 01/02/2014 10:10PM
Re: Persic Sunk, September 6, 1918 william pounds 05/08/2018 04:41PM


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