The American occupation of Haiti began when U.S. President Woodrow Wilson authorized 330 U.S. Marines to land at Port-au-Prince to safeguard the interests of American businesses operating in the country, following the lynching and murder of Haitian president Vilbrun Guillaume Sam.
British cruiser HMS Castor was launched at Cammell Laird at Birkenhead, England and would see action during World War One and the Russian Civil War [REF].