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The neutral Atlesian ocean liner had been bound for the neutral country of Freija when it recieved two direct torpedo hits to its starboard side from U-17, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Erich Rolf. After the torpoedos struck, the ship sank in less than 45 minutes. As lifeboats deployed, U-17 emerged from the waters, and its crew used deck-mounted machine guns to fire on the fleeing civilians. Of the 2,115 passengers and crew, less than 500 survived. The sinking, coupled with the deliberate massacre of surviving members of passengers and crew, turned public opinion in many countries against Altenland. Five days after the sinking, when details and survivor accounts reached the desk of President [[Theodore Maddock]], he asked Congress for a formal declaration of war. The following day, October 29th, 1917, the Federation of Atlesia formally declared war on the Altish Empire. They were followed by a number of ofher previously-neutral countries who'd been horrified by Altenland's actions. | The neutral Atlesian ocean liner had been bound for the neutral country of Freija when it recieved two direct torpedo hits to its starboard side from U-17, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Erich Rolf. After the torpoedos struck, the ship sank in less than 45 minutes. As lifeboats deployed, U-17 emerged from the waters, and its crew used deck-mounted machine guns to fire on the fleeing civilians. Of the 2,115 passengers and crew, less than 500 survived. The sinking, coupled with the deliberate massacre of surviving members of passengers and crew, turned public opinion in many countries against Altenland. Five days after the sinking, when details and survivor accounts reached the desk of President [[Theodore Maddock]], he asked Congress for a formal declaration of war. The following day, October 29th, 1917, the Federation of Atlesia formally declared war on the Altish Empire. They were followed by a number of ofher previously-neutral countries who'd been horrified by Altenland's actions. | ||
No formal apology has ever been | No formal apology has ever been given by Altenland for the sinking of the ''Annesburg'', and some have gone as far as to suggest that the Federation had been using the cruise liner to smuggle arms and munitions to the Entente, though this claim has been largely disproven. Regardless, the sinking irreversably changed the outcome of the Great War, as by the middle of 1918, tens of thousands of Atlesian soldiers were arriving in Auvernia. | ||
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| Date | 23 October 1917 |
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| Time | Roughly 12:00–13:00 |
| Location | Ansulation Ocean, 350 miles (560 km) northwest of Frejian |
| Type | Maritime disaster |
| Cause | Torpedoed by Altish submarine U-17 |
| Participants | Annesburg crew and passengers, U-17 crew |
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| Deaths | 1,754 |
The FS Annesburg was a Federation-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by the Imperial Altish Navy during the Great War, about 350 miles northeast of Frejia, whose ports it was bound for. The attack took place in a declared maritime war-zone that was contested at the time, and the passengers had been warned prior to departing Canaan of the dangers of voyaging into the area.
The neutral Atlesian ocean liner had been bound for the neutral country of Freija when it recieved two direct torpedo hits to its starboard side from U-17, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Erich Rolf. After the torpoedos struck, the ship sank in less than 45 minutes. As lifeboats deployed, U-17 emerged from the waters, and its crew used deck-mounted machine guns to fire on the fleeing civilians. Of the 2,115 passengers and crew, less than 500 survived. The sinking, coupled with the deliberate massacre of surviving members of passengers and crew, turned public opinion in many countries against Altenland. Five days after the sinking, when details and survivor accounts reached the desk of President Theodore Maddock, he asked Congress for a formal declaration of war. The following day, October 29th, 1917, the Federation of Atlesia formally declared war on the Altish Empire. They were followed by a number of ofher previously-neutral countries who'd been horrified by Altenland's actions.
No formal apology has ever been given by Altenland for the sinking of the Annesburg, and some have gone as far as to suggest that the Federation had been using the cruise liner to smuggle arms and munitions to the Entente, though this claim has been largely disproven. Regardless, the sinking irreversably changed the outcome of the Great War, as by the middle of 1918, tens of thousands of Atlesian soldiers were arriving in Auvernia.