U-20 — The World War I German U-Boat That Sank Lusitania It was World War I where submarines really hit their stride, ...

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 ...

Queenstown, 8 May 1915 - More than 1,300 lives are feared lost after the Lusitania was hit by a torpedo ... when it was torpedoed by a German submarine shortly after 2pm. The torpedo exploded ...

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 ...

On May 7, the British Cunard liner Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the Irish coast, and almost 1,200 passengers were lost, including 128 Americans. The Germans had warned that they ...

For the first half of the 20th Century, the German U-boat was the most feared warship at sea. Even Churchill admitted “[t]he only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U ...

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 ...

As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe ...

a passion sparked by a grade-school assignment about the British passenger liner Lusitania that broke transatlantic speed records before her 1915 sinking by a German U-boat. One book led to another: ...

The November 11 national holiday honoring all military veterans originated as Armistice Day, marking the end of The Great War ...

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 ...

The ship was sunk in the Firth of Forth off the east coast of Scotland by the German U-boat, SM U-21. 258 men lost their lives as Pathfinder exploded and then sank. The RMS Lusitania was sunk by ...