Torpedoed in the Mediterranean: A True Story By a Survivor (Classic Reprint)

The 8. 8. Berwick Law sailed from Newport News September 17, 1917, with horses and other cargo for the British armies in Palestine. The writer was one of thirty-five men engaged as horsemen, and according to articles signed before the British vice-consnl there, agreed to perform this service to A lexandria, Egypt, or some other Mediterranean port. The British government in turn agreed to return the horsemen to the United States, somewhere north of Hatteras. To relate in detail such incidents and observations (not detrimental to the Allied cause) of this rather remarkable voyage, where I witnessed the sinking of comrade ships by enemy gunfire, was chased by hostile raiders, and on the return trip torpedoed and sunk by two German submarines off the coast of North A frica, with one of our crew shot down by a German officer on the deck of our own ship; the subsequent return by land and sea through A lgeria, France, and England, to our own country, will be my effort in the following pages.
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