Photograph Notes: Erected by the American National Red Cross in 1920, the American Monument is built on a cliff 429 feet high on the Oa Peninsula. It commemorates the lives lost in two separate marine disasters in 1918; the sinking of the S.S. Tuscania on the 5th February 1918 by a German submarine with an estimated 200 American soldiers and 60 British crew lives lost, and on October 6th 1918, the HMS Otranto was carrying troops from New York to Glasgow when it collided with the steamship HMS Kashmir during a heavy storm with the loss of 80 members of the British crew and 351 US servicemen. The monument is built in the shape of a lighthouse and the location is close to the spot where the Tuscania sank seven miles off the Mull of Oa. See https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/islay/americanmonument/index.html in the Undiscovered Scotland website for more photographs and information about the American Monument.

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