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Espionage on Long Beach Island?
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Jun 27The attacks by the U-151 just off the Jersey coast in early June 1918 did more than just sink merchant ships. They rattled the nerves of those ...
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Navy Faces Fact of U-151 Attacks
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Jun 13On June 2, 1918, after months of telling the American people there was no threat from U-boats, the U.S. Navy admitted the U-151 was attacking ...
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U-151 Has a Busy Day
By THOMAS P. FARNER - May 30Noon on June 2, 1918, found Capt. Heinrich Nostitz and the U-151 off Long Beach Island, with orders to bring World War I to the shores of America. ...
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U-Boat Takes Americans Captive
By THOMAS P. FARNER - May 16In May 1918, as American eyes were fixed on sending an Army to France and the Western Front, the German U-boat U-151 was off Cape May bringing the ...
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First U.S. Troops From Dix Head Abroad
By THOMAS P. FARNER - May 02The United States entered World War I in April 1917, and the rest of that year was spent in preparations to send an Army overseas “to make the ...
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Sumner Becomes Major Obstacle
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Apr 16Most shipwreck stories end with the final count of those lost or rescued, but the story of the stranding of the U.S. Army Transport Sumner in ...
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Sumner Comes to Watery End
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Apr 04On the foggy night of Dec. 11, 1916, the 351-foot Army transport Sumner, once described as the most elegant ship in the Army, ran aground in calm ...
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From Troop Transport to Special Missions
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Mar 21U.S. Army transport Sumner was destined to end its career on the Barnegat Shoals, but there is a long and winding story of how the ship got there. ...
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Rough Seas in the Pacific
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Mar 07U.S. Army Transport Sumner, destined to end its career on the Barnegat Shoals, arrived in Manila in the Philippine Islands, on May 23, 1900, ...
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Is Renaming a Ship Bad Luck?
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Feb 21Stories of Long Beach Island shipwrecks usually focus on the event and the rescue, but sometimes if you dig deeper, you uncover an interesting ...
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Were Spies on Land Helping the U-151?
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Jun 18In early June 1918, the German U-boat U-151 brought the reality of World War I to the Jersey Shore. In one day it had attacked and sunk six ships, ...
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Deadly Sinking of the Carolina
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Jun 06As the sun set on June 2, 1918, the U-151 had finished its historic day off the coast of New Jersey. It had destroyed six allied ships, including ...
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Three Ships Sunk Before Noon
By THOMAS P. FARNER - May 23In April 1918, Capt. Heinrich Nostitz, in the U-151, had been sent to the United States' East Coast with orders to take the war to the Americans. ...
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U-Boat Stalks Atlantic Shipping
By THOMAS P. FARNER - May 09The U-151 had been built to run the British blockade and minefields in order to carry cargo between Germany and the United States, but in April ...
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Sumner Continues to Cause Havoc
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Apr 25As World War I raged in far-off France, Ocean County residents were dealing with a growing problem – the hulk of the once-elegant Army transport ...
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No Hope for Saving the Sumner
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Apr 11In December 1916, the Army transport Sumner was stranded just beyond the breakers in Barnegat Light. Once called the most elegant transport in the ...
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Running Afoul of Barnegat Shoals
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Mar 28On the night of Dec. 11, 1916. U.S. Army Transport Sumner was heading north, parallel to the beaches of LBI, bound for New York City from the ...
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A ‘Grewsome’ Voyage Home
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Mar 14After the Army transport Sumner survived two typhoons in the Pacific, the U.S. government decided it was time to bring the ship back to the East ...
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The Sumner: Floating Place or Hellhole?
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Feb 28The story of how the U.S. Army transport Sumner ended up stranded at Barnegat Light is full of twists and turns and its involvement with the ...
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Did Film Really Incite Mutiny?
By THOMAS P. FARNER - Feb 14In 1916, Robert Goldstein had begun work on a film titled “The Spirit of '76,” about America's struggle for independence. During the winter of ...
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