Atrocity on the Atlantic

Finalist, 2025 Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book • Honourable Mention, Keith Matthews Best Book Award presented by Canadian Nautical Research Society How a German submarine sank a Canadian military hospital ship during the First World War and sparked outrage. On the evening of June 27, 1918, the Llandovery Castle — an unarmed, clearly marked hospital ship used by the Canadian military — was torpedoed off the Irish Coast by U-Boat 86 , a German submarine. Sinking a hospital ship