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 ...

German U-boats targeted both cargo and passenger ships. On May 7, 1915, the U-20 sank the Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people, including 128 Americans. Fearing that ...

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Elbert Hubbard joked before sailing that if the Germans sank the Lusitania, going down with the ship would secure his fame.

RMS Lusitania was an ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line and built on the Clyde. She was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 7 May 1915 and sank in eighteen minutes, eight miles off the Old Head of ...

The sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania by a German U-boat helped to shatter that hope. Woodrow Wilson, 1918. Courtesy: Library of Congress Wilson demanded an apology from Germany and ...

The hull of the HMTS Justicia, which lies 70m down on the seabed off the Donegal coast. Picture: Barry McGill Indepth ...

The sinking of the luxury passenger liner, RMS Lusitania, by a German U-boat as it sailed from New York to Liverpool in 1915 led to the loss of 1,200 lives and caused international outrage on both ...

But in 1915, a German U-boat had torpedoed the luxury liner Lusitania, throwing 1,959 innocent people into the freezing Atlantic; 1,198 of them drowned, including 128 Americans. To kill civilians ...

Lusitania: an ocean liner to rival Titanic. On May 7th 1915 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale she was struck by a single torpedo from a German U-boat. 18 minutes later she was gone: a death ...