Before the Lusitania became famous for its final sinking - it survived a terrifying encounter with an 80 foot rogue wave in ...
It was a maritime disaster almost as deadly as the Titanic. It saw innocent civilians become collateral damage. And it swayed the public opinion of a neutral nation at a time of war, just like the ...
After Lusitania sank in 1915, it carried not only passengers but also valuable cargo to the bottom of the ocean. Decades later, divers began exploring the wreck, searching for lost items and ...
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 ...
THE wreck of the Lusitania, which sank off Cork over a century ago with the loss of 1,198 lives, has been gifted to an Irish museum by its American owner. US businessman Greg Bemis signed over the ...
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On this day in 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed the Lusitania, a British ocean liner, off the coast of Ireland. Of the 1,959 people on board, 1,195 perished at sea. The 32,000-ton liner, commissioned ...
Didier Conrad told me that "it came about because our publisher's a big fan, and as it happened, we love him too, so it came naturally, but he doesn't really have much to do with Portugal or Lusitania ...
Some 1,200 people died when the ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat in World War One. A centenary since its loss, a new exhibition is remembering the massacre, which is often seen as ...
The sinking of the R.M.S. Lusitania by a German submarine in 1915 helped lead the United States into World War I, but more than a century later, researchers are still trying to determine what exactly ...