French Navy - Twenty Five Sailors who died in American Waters

Commemorated in the Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Does anybody happen to know anything about them .... ??

The vessels were ......

L'A.M.B.C. - Armement Militaire des Bâtiments de Commerce, merchant ship gunner (British DEMS or American Armed Guard)

GLOIRE - Gloire-class armoured cruiser, launched 1900, 10,200 tons, spent war in Atlantic, finishing as convoy escort, collided with American liner City of Athens in May 1918, repaired in New York

MARSEILLAISE - Gloire-class armoured cruiser, launched 1900, 9,500 tons, spent war in Atlantic, finishing as convoy escort

MONTCALM - Gueydon-class armoured cruiser, launched 1900, 9,500 tons, completed refit in September 1916 and joined 4th Cruiser Squadron in West Indies, escorted Atlantic convoys from July to November 1918

http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyFrenchNYDeaths.htm

 

I found this ... the French sailors were on the City of Athens ... that collided with the Gloire !!

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A07E3D71F3FE433A25751C0A9639C946996D6CF

Annie

 

All I know annie is that 67 sailors in total lost their lives in the collision.

 

Thanks Cally ! ... looks like the 25 all died of the "flu"

Terrible though isn't it ... whichever way they died ??