The same day, the U-boat sunk the Lusitania, killing 1, 200 civilians on their way from America.
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Torpedoed by a U-boat in May, 1915, the Cunard liner sank in eighteen minutes too short an interval, in other words, to generate stories.
"Piggy-backing on a large U-boat, the Seehund had the capability of reaching the Foyle where there was intense naval and merchant navy activity, " he said.
The minister was told about the HMS Royal Oak which was torpedoed by a German U-boat with the loss of 833 lives at Scapa Flow, off the Orkney coast, on 14 October 1939.
The stated reason was the pressure of the tense international situation - a German U-boat's torpedoing of the RMS Lusitania in May of that year cost 139 American lives - but many reporters suspected Wilson had simply got tired of them.
In 1916 Chaim Weizmann, who later became Israel's first president, worked out how to use chestnuts to solve the lack of acetone, a component of the cordite needed by the British navy to repel German U-boat attacks in the first world war.
The straightness of his back came from something else: that on his third attempt at escape from prison camp he was beaten senseless, and his skull and neck broken, by two Breton peasants with pitchforks, and was invalided out in exchange for a U-boat commander.
Roth expands it into a rich Louisiana picaresque, ranging far and wide as Benjamin tastes romance in Russia with the wife of an English diplomat (a beguiling Tilda Swinton), comes off second-best in an encounter with a German U-boat, and pursues Daisy, the love of his life, first to New York and then to Paris.
Local resident U Than Htun said the boat was crossing the mouth of the Sittwe River on its way to Sittwe, the state capital some 27km (17 miles) away by sea, when it sank.
The U.S. suspected the boat was ferrying weapons bound for Palestinian militants in Gaza, according to a defense official.
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Officials described the course of events as standard procedures when a small boat gets too close to a U.S. Navy ship.
The U.S. ship verbally warned the smaller boat when it was 1, 200 yards (1, 100 meters) away and fired at least one warning shot before the decision was made to fire shots to disable the boat, the officials said.
The boat was in international waters so that the U.S. could claim jurisdiction over him.
For the first time in decades, the U.S. is in uncharted waters in the proverbial boat without a paddle.
In fact, at that point American corporations and the U.S. and Vietnamese governments will have a common interest in not rocking the boat.
"He handed me the check and said, 'I want my boat now, ' and we couldn't do it, " says Carroll, a former U.S. Naval Academy midshipman who grew up crewing for wealthy yacht owners in nearby Newport.
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