Untitled; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; FOREWORD; EPIGRAPH; Ch01. PRIDE OF THE P & O LINE; Ch02. AMERICA JOINS THE WAR; Ch03. CONVOY HX-50 LEAVES FOR ENGLAND; Ch04. PRELUDE TO DISASTER; Ch05. COLLISION WITH THE KASHMIR; Ch06. THE MOUNSEY TO THE RESCUE; Ch07. THE SINKING OF THE OTRANTO; Ch08. THE FAMILIES BACK HOME; Ch09. THE AFTERMATH; Ch10. THE REST OF THE STORY; AUTHOR'S NOTE; APPENDIX 1. HMS Otranto American Casualties; APPENDIX 2. HMS Otranto American Survivors; APPENDIX 3. Soldiers Reported AWOL from HMS Otranto in New York Harbor; APPENDIX 4. HMS Otranto British Casualties; NOTES; INDEX
Summary
Many Were Held by the Sea tells the story of the crash of HMS Otranto and HMS Kashmir off the coast of Scotland near the end of World War I. The two ships, former British passenger liners from the P & O Steamship Company, collided while ferrying hundreds of American soldiers from New York to various British ports. The narrative details the courage of the young men on board and the anguish of their relatives on the home front, ul
