the monument was erected on the mull of oa on the island of islay by the American red cross to the soldiers and sailors who lost there lives when the Tuscania was torpedoed by a German submarine in the north channel on February 5th 1918 200 lost and the Otranto sank in Machir bay on the west coast of the island after a colsion with another ship on the 6th October 1918 400 lost
