A 15ft (4.6m) sculpture of a German ... U-boats, stretching in convoy for two miles (3km), started arriving at Harwich and Dovercourt on 20 November 1918 - just over a week after Armistice. The ...

They knew that at any moment, German U-boats could descend upon them. Disaster struck at 4:15 p.m. The German UB-64 launched a torpedo that hit the vessel's starboard side and caused an explosion.

Germany changed the tactic during WWI via unrestricted submarine warfare, which meant that German U-boats could attack without warning any vessel it came across. Germany sank the civilian vessel ...