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S.S. Baltic (White
Star Line)
Ocean Liner Transport for Canadian and American Troops, and cargo.
Sent to Japan and
scrapped in 1933. |
Dr. Louis
Rudolph (SS Baltic)
Member of the Tuscania Survivors Association
(1938 TSA
membership list)
Address: 55 East Washington St., Chicago, Illinois
(1938)
Francis L.
Dawson (SS Baltic)
Member of the Tuscania Survivors Association (1938 TSA
membership list)
Address: 132 Myrtle St., Lynn, Massachusetts
(1938)
R. P.
Taggart (SS Baltic)
Member of the Tuscania Survivors Association (1938 TSA
membership list)
Address: 219 Ross Ave., Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania
(1938)
August
Dahlke (SS Baltic)
Member of the Tuscania Survivors Association (1938 TSA
membership list)
Address: 3013 N. 39th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(1938)
Peter
Diedrich (SS Baltic)
Member of the Tuscania Survivors Association (1938 TSA
membership list)
Address: Rural Route No. 4, Box 559-L, West Allis, Wisconsin
(1938)
Feb. 21, 2008
My grandfather Cpl. Fred
A. Peck, "A" Battery 148 FA, was on the Baltic just ahead of the Tuscania
when she was hit. He mentions the sinking in his diary, which I am in the
process of transcribing. Don't know if he mentions it in his letters home as
I haven't gotten to those yet. I believe I have a picture of the Tuscania
not included in the gallery.
Brian Peck
brianmpeck{at}bellsouth.net
May 2, 2008
My Grandfather Cpl. Fred
A. Peck was on the Baltic, just ahead of the Tuscania in convoy. Here is his
diary entry of the event: Tuesday Feb. 5, 1918 Land Ho what a welcome
sound. Off the Scottish coast in the Irish Channel 8 P.M. Ship behind us
torpedoed, troops safe on land. Destroyers firing, sub captured. 1,000 U.S.
troops reported drowned. S.S. Tuscania sunk in sight of us. [Losses
corrected in later entry.] Thursday Feb 7, 1918... Learned that 200 men went
down on the S.S. (Tuscania) ship sunk behind us in the Irish Channel. ...
Brian Peck
brianmpeck{at}bellsouth.net
