events
July 17, 1918
The RMS Carpathia is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five lives are lost.
RMS Carpathia
RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in their shipyard in Wallsend, England.
SM U-55
SM U-55 was one of the six Type U-51 U-boats of the Imperial German Navy during the First World War.