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The Lusitania wreck is facing collapse. The race is on to save as many artefacts as possible
The stem of the Lusitania's damaged bow. Picture: Stewart Andrews. “It is a natural process and there is not much anybody can ...
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Why the Germans Torpedoed the Lusitania
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 ...
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On This Day: The Sinking of the Lusitania
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! The British ocean liner, the Lusitania, set sail from New York on May 1, 1915, with over 2000 passengers and crew on board. The ship was bound ...
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Lusitania Porthole
RMS Lusitania was a Cunard transatlantic liner built on the Clyde,Scotland.She was 787ft long,87ft wide and weighed 31,550 tons. Her maiden vogage between Liverpool and New York was on 7 Sep 1907 ...
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On This Day: U-boat sinks British liner Lusitania killing 1,200
In 1915, a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people. In 1921, in an exclusive interview with the United Press, Sun Yat Sen, president of ...
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Sinking of the Lusitania
On 7 May 1915, the British ocean liner, the Lusitania, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast, as it sailed from New York to Liverpool. Thousands of passengers were onboard and 1,200 ...