Ticonderoga
Name | Ticonderoga |
Type | Steamer
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GRT | 5,130 tons |
Country | American |
Built | 1914
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Builder | Rickmers A.G., Bremerhaven
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Operator | U.S. Navy Naval Overseas Transportation Service
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History |
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U-boat attacks on Steamer Ticonderoga
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
1 | 30 Sep 1918 | U 152 (Adolf Franz) | Sunk | Sunk shortly after dawn by gunnery after falling behind its convoy with engine problems overnight.
| 43° 05'N, 38° 43'W
| Norfolk & New York - La Pallice
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| 213
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| Two officers — Lieutenant Frank Muller, and Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Junius Fulcher — taken prisoner. Lt. Commander James J. Madison, Ticonderoga’s commanding officer, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for this action.
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Position of attack on Ticonderoga
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