WAR ON HOSPITAL SHIPS 1914 - 1945
This section is devoted to both recording and commemorating the many "incidents" that involved hospital ships and related vessels/crafts between 1914 to 1945. Such "incidents" may include such actions as: bombardment from shore, seizure on the high seas, declared a prize of war by a prize court, scuttled in port, collision at sea, aerially bombed, aerially strafed, torpedoed and sunk, torpedoed and damaged, stopped and inspected on the high seas by belligerent, stopped and inspected on the high seas by own side, search and rescue mission after naval engagement,etc....

Various documents both textual and visual will be posted here from time to time. For the time being they are in no particular order though a rough chronological basis will be attempted.

The front cover of an earlier war cover from a Northern Italian popular illustrated weekly. Notice the incorrect depiction of an Allied hospital ship being supposedly sunk by the gleeful Germans.

A 1918 published French poster late in the war that shows the major Allied hospital ships that had been sunk by German forces especially submarine.

An official Canadian government poster from the summer of 1918 that depicts drowning crew including one of the 14 nurses lost when the LLANDOVERY CASTLE was torpedoed and sunk in June 1918. This poster is probably the most frequently come across of this incident.

An official American Liberty Loans Poster (from Philadelphia,Pennsylvania) issued in the summer of 1918 showing the lifeboats of the LLANDOVERY CASTLE coming under direct gun fire from the German submarine that had sank their hospital ship.

The sinking of the Russian Red Cross manned and Imperial Russian Navy crewed hospital ship "PORTUGAL" in March 1916 in the Black Sea with heavy loss of life set in chain the ultimate unilaterial declaration by Russian in the early summer of 1916 that it would no longer respect the Turkish Red Crescent's vessels in the Black Sea(this after at least one other Russian hospital ship was sunk).

In the spring of 1917 this crosschannel passenger ship was sunk near a French port in shallow waters.

A Turkish published (circa 1915?) postcard showing a Turkish Red Crescent vessel proceeding at night time while being illuminated by a destroyer's searchlight.

A British 1918 published document alleging German atrocities against Allied hospital ships as part of a systematic way of naval reprisals.

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