Noon on June 2, 1918, found Capt. Heinrich Nostitz and the U-151 off Long Beach Island, with orders to bring World War I to the shores of America. Nostitz had already sunk three ships that day when to the south he sighted the four-masted schooner Edward H. Cole, whose captain, H.G. Newcombe, later reported, “At 3.10 in the afternoon when about 50 miles southeast of Barnegat Light, we sighted a boat on the starboard bow about 2,000 yards away. She circled around and came aft on the port quarter.