Synopsis: "Das Schiff des Todes (1917; trans M T H Sadler as The Ship of Death: A Novel of the War 1918) traces the passage of the great liner Gigantic in its Ship of Fools passage eastwards across the Atlantic, until it is sunk after a mysterious personage, who has claimed the ship will not sink while he is on board, and whose sway over his fellow passengers may be due to Telepathy, leaves the ship at Brent, and the ship is torpedoed by a German submarine; to this point, analogies with the sinking of the Lusitania are visible, if distracted by plotting. In the second half, the captain of the submarine, as punishment, is subjected to thirteen successive Reincarnations, and is unable to die properly (see Wandering Jew). The overblown intensities of this tale perhaps demonstrate the difficulty of grasping so close to the event the realities of the Great War." (underscore represents linked cross-reference) --SFE3, biographical entry by John Clute