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Unfortunately, two of these doors malfunctioned it is not known exactly which ones, but the two that remained open allowed water to progress through Britannic's superstructure, contributing greatly to the acceleration of the sinking.Īgainst Captain Charles Alfred Bartlett's orders, nurses left the nursing suite portholes open in the E deck nursing suits, and they remained open over the course of Britannic's sinking, which essentially allowed water to pour into the nursing suite cabins. Shortly after the collision with the mine, attempts to close the watertight doors were nearly a complete success. On the morning of November 21, 1916, Britannic was sailing in the Kea Channel when an explosion by a mine rocked the ship after a collision at approximately 8:12 A.M. She was sent to the Britannic never saw passenger service. Britannic was launched just before the start of the First World War in 1914 and was laid up at her builders in Belfast for many months before finally being put to use as a hospital ship after being requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1915. Titanic which sank on April 14-15, 1912 after hitting an iceberg. Britannic was one of the Olympic-class ocean liners of White Star Line, with her sisters being the R.M.S. Britannic, as she appeared in her hospital livery. His children donated it to the collections of the Kansas Museum of History in 2009.H.M.H.S. View an image of the back of the uniform. The uniform shown here belonged to Joe Price, a sailor on the Vicksburg from 1918 to 1919. The Vicksburg also escorted American ships going to Russia as part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. Though this was the patrol’s only significant find, the ship continued to protect the west coast until October 1919 (almost a year after the war's end). The Vicksburg chased down the schooner and found five Germans, eight Mexicans, and an American spy, as well as arms, ammunition, and a German flag on board. The patrol was uneventful for most of the war however, on March 17, 1918, the Vicksburg received intelligence that a schooner carrying Germans was leaving Viejo Bay, Mexico. To prevent this, the USS Vicksburg patrolled the Pacific, looking for signs of German submarines. was fearful that Germany would use Mexican waters to stage an attack. Though Mexico declined Germany’s offer, the U.S. With the potential of a direct threat from Germany, the U.S. British intelligence intercepted the message and alerted American officials. In return for their cooperation, the Germans would help Mexico regain the lost territory of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. In it, Zimmermann suggested a German-Mexican military alliance if it appeared the U.S. Arthur Zimmermann, the German Foreign Minister, sent a coded telegram to the German ambassador in Mexico. The most famous attack sunk the Lusitania in 1915, a disaster in which 128 Americans died.
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While this assignment may have seemed far from the action in Europe, it actually was in response to the possibility of an attack on the continental United States.īefore 1917, the United States remained neutral despite attacks on ships by German submarines that resulted in American deaths.
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Price was assigned to the USS Vicksburg, a ship ordered to patrol the U.S. Navy on July 26, 1918, 18 months after the United States declared war on Germany. Joe Price, a young man from Effingham, Kansas, enlisted in the U.S. One Kansas sailor wore this uniform during a unique experience patrolling the west coast of the United States. American involvement in World War I is usually associated with soldiers on the battlefields of France.