Title Many were held by the sea : the tragic sinking of HMS Otranto / R. Neil Scott ; foreword by the Rt. Hon Lord Geore Islay MacNeill Robertson.

Publication Info.	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & amp ; Littlefield, [2012]
	©2012

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Description	1 online resource (xxx, 249 pages :) : portrait
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Untitled; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; FOREWORD; EPIGRAPH; Ch01. PRIDE OF THE P & O LINE; Ch02. AMERICA JOINS THE WAR; Ch03. CONVOY HX-50 LEAVES FOR ENGLAND; Ch04. PRELUDE TO DISASTER; Ch05. COLLISION WITH THE KASHMIR; Ch06. THE MOUNSEY TO THE RESCUE; Ch07. THE SINKING OF THE OTRANTO; Ch08. THE FAMILIES BACK HOME; Ch09. THE AFTERMATH; Ch10. THE REST OF THE STORY; AUTHOR'S NOTE; APPENDIX 1. HMS Otranto American Casualties; APPENDIX 2. HMS Otranto American Survivors; APPENDIX 3. Soldiers Reported AWOL from HMS Otranto in New York Harbor; APPENDIX 4. HMS Otranto British Casualties; NOTES; INDEX.
Summary	Many Were Held by the Sea tells the story of the crash of HMS Otranto and HMS Kashmir off the coast of Scotland near the end of World War I. The two ships, former British passenger liners from the P & O Steamship Company, collided while ferrying hundreds of American soldiers from New York to various British ports. The narrative details the courage of the young men on board and the anguish of their relatives on the home front, ul.
Subject	Otranto (Troopship)
	Kashmir (Troopship)
	Kashmir (Troopship) (OCoLC)fst01996542
	Otranto (Troopship) (OCoLC)fst01928047
	World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
	World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, British.
	Marine accidents -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
	Transports -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
	World War, 1914-1918 -- Transportation -- Great Britain.
	World War, 1914-1918 -- Casualties -- Great Britain.
	Shipwrecks -- Scotland -- Islay.
	HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
	Battle casualties. (OCoLC)fst00828893
	Marine accidents. (OCoLC)fst01009346
	Shipwrecks. (OCoLC)fst01116638
	Transportation. (OCoLC)fst01155007
	Transports. (OCoLC)fst01155410
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
	Scotland -- Islay. (OCoLC)fst01251887
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title	Tragic sinking of HMS Otranto
Other Form:	Print version: Scott, R. Neil. Many were held by the sea. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & amp ; Littlefield, ©2012 (DLC) 2012003033
ISBN	1442213442 (electronic bk.)
	9781442213449 (electronic bk.)

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