Built in 1914, the HMCS Llandovery Castle was one of five Canadian hospital ships that served in the First World War. On a journey from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool, England, the ship was torpedoed off southern Ireland on the night of June 27, 1918 by the German submarine U-86. The sinking was the deadliest Canadian naval disaster during WW1. Resulting in the loss of 146 officers and members of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, including 14 Canadian nursing sisters. The ship displayed clear Red Cross markings, marking it out as a defenceless, non combat ship that should have been guaranteed to have a safe passage and firing at a hospital ship was against international law. However, this did not stop the Germans to open fire, they sank it
