The disasters of the RMS Titanic and the RMS Lusitania were two of the greatest maritime tragedies of their era. In April of 1912, the Harland & Wolff, Belfast-built Titanic sank on its maiden ...

A Bazetta resident survived the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania and offered a key eyewitness account of the tragedy that killed 1,186 people.

Some passengers canceled out of security concerns. But wasn’t the Lusitania cloaked in the same myth of invincibility as the Titanic? Should the ship ever have set sail? It’s very important ...

Records from two nearly 100-year-old shipwrecks, the Titanic and the Lusitania, have given researchers new insight into human selfishness — and altruism. On one boat, it seems, the men thought ...

As wrecks go, the Lusitania is second only to the Titanic in terms of fame and tragedy. Submerged some 92 metres deep around ...

He died in 1961, at the age of 97. The sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 and the Titanic in 1912 may be forever linked as the two most famous maritime disasters of the 20th century. But the ...

The RMS Titanic was built by the White Star Line, which was a competitor to another shipbuilding company, Cunard. In 1906, Cunard made major waves by building the Lusitania and the Mauretania ...

The Titanic sank in a leisurely 2 hours and 40 minutes, with plenty of time for social norms to influence who made it onto the lifeboats. The Lusitania went under in just 18 minutes, creating a ...

dwarfs both the Titanic and the Lusitania combined. On how many people died when the Wilhelm Gustloff sank The Gustloff held about 1,400 people, but in order to make room for more passengers ...