Title: Sinking of USS Covington 1918 Description: Sinking of the transport ship USS Covington (ID-1409) July 1, 1918; the Covington, built in Germany in 1908 and previously called the SS Cincinnati of the Hamburg-America Line, was torpedoed in the North Atlantic by German submarine U-86, sinking the next day with a loss of six crew members; Category: World War I Keywords: Atlantic Ocean, First World War, German submarines, The Great War, marine disasters, ship sinking, torpedoes, transports, U.S. transport ships, undersea vessels, underwater boats, War to End All Wars, World War I, WWI. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 2400 x 3211 (7.71 MPixels) (1.34) Print Size: 20.3 x 27.2 cm; 8.0 x 10.7 inches File Size: 22.07 MB (23,145,114 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000048322 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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