Bulletin -- Lusitania torpedoed and sunk off Irish coast LIVERPOOL, May 7, 1915 (UP) - The Cunard liner Lusitania with a heavy passenger list of Americans, was torpedoed and sunk off the Irish ...
The Lusitania, targeted by a German U-Boat, was hit with one small torpedo, which caused an explosion on board. Most survivors agree that a second, more massive explosion that caused the ship to ...
On a dark December night in 1906, the world’s first cruise ship ran aground in Jamaica—and in the wake of the crash, the ...
Some of the most famous of these ships are those that sank, like the Andrea Doria, the Lusitania and the Titanic. The builders of the United States learned from others' mistakes, and it will not ...
Lusitania and her sister-ship Mauretania were originally fitted with three-bladed propellers. In 1908 Mauretania had a new set of four-bladed propellers fitted, which immediately improved her speed.
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 ...
Bulletin -- Lusitania torpedoed and sunk off Irish coast LIVERPOOL, May 7, 1915 (UP) - The Cunard liner Lusitania with a heavy passenger list of Americans, was torpedoed and sunk off the Irish ...