naval mine from a minefield left a few days earlier by the German submarine . The ship sank in five to seven minutes, killing 209 people including eight nurses. One of the survivors of the sinking of Osmanieh was Jack Cohen, then a member of the Royal Flying Corps. After the War he founded the British multinational retail chain Tesco. Notes References - Total pages: 258 - Total pages: 152 1906 ships Ships built on the River Tyne Maritime incidents in 1917 Ships sunk by German submarines in World War I World War I shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea