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Many survivors from the Lusitania report that a second explosion took place either immediately or a few seconds afterwards, some suggesting it felt more severe. [177] This explosion has been used to explain the speed of Lusitania' s sinking, and has been the subject of debate since the disaster, with the situation of the wreck (lying on top of ...
RMS Lusitania (named after the Roman province corresponding to modern Portugal and portions of western Spain) was a British ocean liner launched by the Cunard Line in 1906. She was the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her sister Mauretania three months later and was awarded the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908.
Schwieger wrote that he was surprised by the size of the explosion, reasoning that a second explosion must have happened, possibly caused by coal dust, a boiler explosion, or powder. According to his logs, only then did he recognise her as the Lusitania, a vessel in the British Fleet Reserve. [4] In 18 minutes, Lusitania sank with 1,197 ...
He was regaling them with tales of his life in the theater when, at 2:10 in the afternoon, within fourteen miles of the Old Head of Kinsale, with the coast of Ireland in sight, a torpedo from the German U-boat U-20 struck the Lusitania on the starboard side. Within a minute, there was a second explosion, followed by several smaller ones. [9]
In 1993, Ballard investigated the wreck of RMS Lusitania off the Irish coast. It had been struck by a torpedo, whose explosion was followed by a second, much larger one. The wreck had been depth charged by the Royal Navy several years after the sinking and had also been damaged by other explorers, making a forensic analysis difficult. He found ...
In the autumn of 1916, over a year after the sinking of Lusitania, Turner was appointed relieving master of the Cunard Line vessel Ivernia, which The British government had chartered as a troopship. On 1 January 1917, a German U-boat torpedoed the ship in the Mediterranean off the Greek coast, with 2,400 troops aboard.
An explosion occurred after a U.S. bomb from World War II detonated at an airport in Japan on Wednesday, Oct. 2 The incident happened at Miyazaki Airport, a former Imperial Japanese Navy base ...
Her younger self, about age 12, is depicted in a BBC movie of the Lusitania sinking: Lusitania: Murder in the Atlantic (2007), in which she is played by Madeleine Garrood. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Canadian author Frieda Wishinsky published a children's book, titled Avis Dolphin , in 2015, giving a fictionalized account of Dolphin's experience of the sinking.