Sinking of the USS President Lincoln-- Part 7: USS Warrington and Smith Rescued the Survivors

The U-90 remained around the stricken Americans for two hours, then left and then returned again.

The USS Warrington (DD-30) found them, then the destroyer USS Smith (DD-17) came to assist..

Losses were 3 officers and 23 men.

They returned to Brest, France on June 1.  Along the way another submarine was spotted by the Smith and 22 depth charges were dropped but nothing was hit.  Isaacs (Izak) later reported that it had been the U-90 and that they had narrowly escaped.

When they arrived at Brest, the President Lincoln's sister ship, the USS President Grant was there and it sailed a few days later.

--Cooter

The Sinking of the USS President Lincoln-- Part 6: Lt. Edouard Izak Medal of Honor Winner

Continued from June 21.

The U-90 surfaced and came among the survivors looking for officers and particularly the commanding officer.  They took G.A. Anderson but returned him.  Most of the officers had removed their insignia and many of the men said that the captain had gone down with the ship.

The Germans were able to identify one officer, Lt. E.V.M. Isaacs, USN, and they took him.  Edouard Isaac later received the Medal of Honor.  He escaped from a German prison camp and got back to Allied lines and reported what he had learned about German submarine operations during the time he was on the U-90.

He died in 1990, the last living recipient of the Medal of Honor from World War I.

(His actual name was Edouard Izak.  He changed the name after the war to this.)

--Cooter