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Atrocity on the Atlantic: Attack on a Hospital Ship During the Great War

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Finalist, 2025 Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book • Honourable Mention, Keith Matthews Best Book Award presented by Canadian Nautical Research Society

How a German submarine sank a Canadian military hospital ship during the First World War and sparked outrage.

On the evening of June 27, 1918, the Llandovery Castle — an unarmed, clearly marked hospital ship used by the Canadian military — was torpedoed off the Irish Coast by U-Boat 86, a German submarine.

Sinking a hospital shi...