Attack on Orleans

Attack on Orleans
	Part of the U-boat campaign of World War I
	; Imperial German Ensign and US media coverage of the Attack on Orleans
Date	21 July 1918
Location	off Orleans, Massachusetts, United States, Atlantic Ocean
Result	German victory
Belligerents
United States	German Empire
Commanders and leaders
unknown	Kapitänleutnant Richard Feldt
Strength
Sea:; Tugboat Perth Amboy; Schooner Lansford; 3 barges; Air:; 9 Curtiss HS seaplanes	Submarine U-156
Casualties and losses
Perth Amboy damaged; Lansford and 3 barges sunk; no casualties	none

The attack on Orleans was a naval and air action during World War I on 21 July 1918 when a German submarine fired on a small convoy of barges led by a tugboat off Orleans, Massachusetts, on the eastern coast of the Cape Cod peninsula. Several shells fired during the engagement likely missed their intended maritime or aircraft targets and fell to earth in the area around Orleans, giving the impression of a deliberate attack on the town.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Biggers, W. Watts (1985). "The Germans are Coming! The Germans are Coming!". Proceedings. 111 (6). United States Naval Institute: 38–43.
^ Hodos, Paul (2017). The Kaiser's Lost Kreuzer: A History of U-156 and Germany's Long-Range Submarine Campaign Against North America, 1918 (1st ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishing. pp. 84–88. ISBN 978-1476671628. Retrieved 17 January 2021.

[wwb-1] Biggers, W. Watts (1985). "The Germans are Coming! The Germans are Coming!". Proceedings. 111 (6). United States Naval Institute: 38–43.

[2] Hodos, Paul (2017). The Kaiser's Lost Kreuzer: A History of U-156 and Germany's Long-Range Submarine Campaign Against North America, 1918 (1st ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishing. pp. 84–88. ISBN 978-1476671628. Retrieved 17 January 2021.

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