Tuesday, April 17, 2018

The Tuscania Monument On Islay Island-- Part 2: The Sinking of the HMS Otranto

Eight months later, on October 8, 1918, was carrying troops from New York to Glasgow when it collided with the steamship HMS Kashmir in a heavy storm.

Over 400 of the American troops and British crew were lost.  Many of them were buried at the military cemetery at Kilchoman.  This cemetery has the Kilchoman Cross dating to the 1300s.

--DaCoot

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