From the April 13, 2010, Smithsonian.com. "Dinosaur casualties of World War I."
On December 6, 1916, the Canadian merchant ship SS Mount Temple was on its way to England with a set of 75 million-year-old dinosaur skeletons from Canada. It encountered the German raider SMS Mowe which ordered the ship to stop.
Someone aboard the Mount Temple aimed its sole gun at the Mowe which considered that to be a threatening move and it opened fire, killing three and injuring others.
The Mount Temple then surrendered and the Mowe took off the crew and passengers before sinking the ship, unaware of the history on board the vessel. The people from the Canadian ship were eventually sent to Germany on another capture.
Dem Dinos Just Can't Get No Respect. --Cooter
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