Talk:USS Tuscania

This is nonsense. No submarine or ship of any kind by that name appears in the US Navy List. I am flagging this article for deletion.

Article creator is known hoaxster and vandal:

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Antidespotic 22:04, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

There was a Tuscania
Plug 'harry r truman tuscania' into Google, you'll find some independent references to him being on a transport named Tuscania that was indeed torpedoed by Germans in World War 1.

Enjoy

MGlosenger 00:40, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but this article is nonsense.
Yes, a transport, not a submarine. Most of the details cited in this article are unsourced and likely fictitious, the invention of an author known for inserting speculative or verifiably false information in other articles.In its present form, the article does not appear to contain any independently verifiable facts.

Moreover, even if there was a transport by this name, what is its historical significance? Not every ship sunk during WWI merits its own page here, especially those whose very existence is only surmised from scanty circumstantial evidence.


 * True, it may not be a notable ship regardless. MGlosenger 03:35, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

I have reserved a book at the campus library that discusses US naval actions during WWI. I'll see whether it has anything to say on this subject. Antidespotic 16:47, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Okay, according to Robert K. Massie's Castles of Steel, the Tuscania was the only transport carrying American soldiers heading to Europe to be torpedoed during the first world war. The ship's name was just Tuscania, not USS Tuscania; since she was was crewed by British sailors and was not commanded by an US Navy officer, she did not bear the 'USS' prefix. The Tuscania was torpedoed off Ireland on February 5, 1918 with 2,179 American soldiers on board; 166 soldiers and 44 crewmen drowned. Antidespotic 12:22, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

As her sinking was the first German naval action against a belligerent United States, I feel that the Tuscania deserves her own page. I propose to create a page entitled Tuscania (ship), with a redirect from this page. Antidespotic 12:22, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Whoa! I just realized that there's a LOT of information on the web about the sinking if you just search for "Tuscania" (since 'USS Tuscania' is spurious.) One great site is at http://renton.50megs.com/Tuscania/archive.htm. I oughta see if I can get at any of the sources the author cites. Antidespotic 12:34, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Now redirects to Tuscania (1914). There were two ships by this name, the latter laid down in the 1950s.