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The stem of the Lusitania's damaged bow. Picture: Stewart Andrews. “It is a natural process and there is not much anybody can ...
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At 2 p.m., the Lusitania was rocked by a torpedo from a German submarine and sank in a mere 18 minutes. The shot was fired without warning, a breach of international protocol. Among those lost was ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! The British ocean liner, the Lusitania, set sail from New York on May 1, 1915, with over 2000 passengers and crew on board. The ship was bound ...
Parts of the wreckage of the ship Lusitania, which sunk on May 7, 1915, off Ireland’s coast, killing 1,201 people, has been donated to the Old Head of Kinsale Museum by the wreck’s owner US ...
RMS Lusitania was a Cunard transatlantic liner built on the Clyde,Scotland.She was 787ft long,87ft wide and weighed 31,550 tons. Her maiden vogage between Liverpool and New York was on 7 Sep 1907 ...
Cobh will host a solemn and dignified tribute this May as the annual Lusitania Commemoration Ceremony takes place on Sunday, May 11, marking 110 years since the tragic sinking of the RMS Lusitania ...
A 1915 painting of the Lusitania sinking, as rendered by the German government. (Wikimedia Commons) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...
Queenstown, 8 May 1915 - More than 1,300 lives are feared lost after the Lusitania was hit by a torpedo off the south coast of Ireland yesterday. The famous Cunard Steamship Company ship was eight ...
When German U-boat Commander Walther Schwieger ordered a torpedo strike on the Lusitania, he didn't know it would be the shot that eventually led the U.S. into WWI. But it wasn't a mistake ...
This is an exact replica of the medal designed in Germany to commemorate the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. RMS Lusitania was an ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line and built on the Clyde.