The Lusitania and the RMS Titanic are two of the most majestic vessels the British have ever produced. Both tragically sank, causing enormous loss of life. What's particularly notable about the two ...
On May 1, 1915, Lusitania left New York for Liverpool carrying around 1,960 people toward waters Germany had declared an unrestricted submarine warfare zone. Off Ireland, German submarine U-20 found ...
This post has been corrected and updated, as indicated below. Nearly a century after a German torpedo sunk the passenger liner Lusitania, killing nearly 1,200 people, a story about the World War I ...
When the passenger ship Lusitania was hit by a torpedo, followed by a second explosion, chaos ensued. Hundreds of passengers rushed toward lifeboats. Some didn’t. Millionaire and sportsman Alfred ...
They saw it coming. A lookout first spotted "a burst of foam about 500 yards away", then a track moving across the flat plane of the sea as clear as if drawn "by an invisible hand". It was just after ...
The RMS Lusitania was the world’s largest and faster ocean liner in 1915. It plied a route between New York City and Liverpool. Thursday, May 7, 2015, marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of ...
Owning a fragment of history — a Gettysburg bullet, a Coolidge campaign button — is fun, so in 1968 Gregg Bemis became an owner of the Lusitania. This 787-feet-long passenger liner has been beneath ...
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 ...
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