United States, 39.76, -98.51918The tragic 1918 sinking of the British Otranto upset many Georgia communities. Nearly every county in the state lost at least one man when the ship went down off the coast of Scotland.Photograph of the British ship Otranto, a medium-sized, prewar passenger liner that had was used military service by the British Royal Navy, sailing in open waters. It carried 690 United States infantrymen, mostly Georgians from Fort Screven. The tragic 1918 sinking of the British Otranto upset many Georgia communities. Nearly every county in the state lost at least one man when the ship went down off the coast of Scotland.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/world-war-i-georgiaForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/world-war-i-georgiaForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaAtlantic OceanShipsPassenger shipsGreat Britain. Royal NavyUnited States. ArmyShipwrecks--Atlantic OceanWorld War, 1914-1918OtrantoStillImage