![]() Then, along comes the Lusitania in May 1915 in waters that Germany had determined to be a war zone. It was hard enough to imagine the German Navy going after merchant vessels.īut the Germans had started sinking merchant vessels, often without warning. ![]() The Lusitania was thought to be immune from such an attack because nobody could possibly imagine it. The submarine proved to be a very effective weapon in that respect and one that Germany decided to use in a major break with naval warfare against merchant and civilian vessels. What’s happening at sea is that Germany recognized England was an island nation, and that one way to bring England to her knees was to destroy as much seaborne commerce as possible. ![]() We all know about the horrific land battles. Put the Lusitania into the historical context of the war between Britain and Germany for control of the seas. It’s an allusion to a number of things, but primarily to the track left by the torpedo that sank the Lusitania. And that was called, at one time, the dead wake. There’s the live wake, I suppose you could call it, which comes off the engine.īut in the case of a liner, the wake can persist for many thousands of yards, if not miles, behind the ship. An obvious question: Why is your book called Dead Wake?ĭead wake is an old maritime term for the disturbance that remains on the water long after a boat has passed.
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