Winneconne
Steam Freighter · United States · Lost 1918 · Delaware Bay & the Approaches
An American steel freighter stopped and sunk without loss of life by the German submarine U-151 off Cape May during its 1918 raid on the Atlantic coast.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Winneconne was a British-built steel steam freighter operating for American owners out of New York. On June 2, 1918, during a single-day rampage off the New Jersey and Delaware coast, the German submarine U-151 stopped and sank her along with several other American vessels. The crew was taken off safely before the ship went down, and there were no casualties. Her loss was part of a widely reported wave of U-boat attacks that briefly brought the war to the mid-Atlantic coast.
Vessel
- 1907
- Osbourne, Graham & Co.
- Sunderland, England
- Steel
- Not established
- Not established
- 1869
- Steam
- Foreign Transport & Mercantile Corporation, New York (American Trans-Atlantic Company at time of loss)
Loss
- June 2, 1918
- Enemy action
- Off Cape May, New Jersey, near the approaches to Delaware Bay
- Atlantic Ocean
- Boston
- Not established
- 28
- 0
- Not established
The Wreck Today
- Not established
- Not established
- Not established
- Not established
- Not established
Position
- 39.43° N 72.83° W
- Reported, unconfirmed
- Cape May, New Jersey
Position given by uboat.net as 39°26'N, 72°50'W; not independently verified for this record
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (75/100)
The precise sinking position is as reported by a secondary naval-history database and has not been independently verified.
uboat.net, World War One Ships Hit by U-boats database
Build data, tonnage, date, attacking U-boat, and approximate position
DelMar History (Michael Morgan), citing contemporary wire service reports
Contemporary press account of the raid and vessel losses
