7-33

Updated: May 27, 2025

In the meantime the German Government which no doubt had not expected such drastic action on the part of the United States was profoundly disturbed, and it was stated that crews of American merchantmen who ventured to fire upon German submarines before a state of war existed between the two countries must expect to meet the fate of the British merchant captain, Charles Fryatt, who as will be recalled, was tried and executed in Germany for attempting to ram the German submarine 7-33 with his vessel, the Great Eastern Railway steamship, Brussels, in July of 1916.

Lawrence Perry - Our Navy in the War