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After fifty-six years of service on the high seas, the clipper ship Bohemia would end its days in “battle.” Immortalized on celluloid as a star of the movie “The Suicide Fleet,” the aging ship sank in deep water, twenty miles west of Coronado, torpedoed by German “U-boats.”

Read the story of the ship Bohemia and the Suicide Fleet.

The Bohemia “under attack.” Courtesy San Diego Maritime Museum.