The US cutter Spencer attacks U-boat U-175 as it disrupts an Allied merchant convoy in 1943
On of a SS Donaldson 13,000-ton the September Athenia, second Atlantic of day liner, 1939, the Line, set sail from Liverpool for Montreal, across the Atlantic Ocean. Among the 1,103 passengers were a number of German Jews and 72 British nationals, along with 315 crew, under the command of Captain James Cook.
Lieutenant Fritz-Julius Lemp (left) salutes fleet commander Karl Dönitz in 1940