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RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles (20 kilometres) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland.
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.
The Sinking of the Lusitania was noted as a work of war propaganda, [29] and is often called the longest work of animation of its time. [35] [e] The film is likely the earliest animated documentary. [44] [f] McCay's biographer, animator John Canemaker, called The Sinking of the Lusitania "a monumental work in the history of the animated film". [46]
On 1 February 1915, he attacked the hospital ship HMHS Asturias, but the attack failed. On 7 May 1915, Schwieger was responsible for the U-20 sinking passenger liner RMS Lusitania leading to the deaths of 1,199 people, an event that played a role in the United States' later entry into World War I .
The famous front page / lead story of the American influential "newspaper-of-record" of The New York Times on May 8, 1915 edition, titled "Nation's Course in Doubt", addressing the serious implications of the recent sinking of R.M.S. Lusitania [5]
The British liner Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat. [50] May 8–13 Western: ... USA: National World War I Museum. "World War One Timeline". UK: BBC.
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania is a 2015 New York Times non-fiction bestseller written by author Erik Larson. [1] The book looks at the sinking of Lusitania during World War I and the events surrounding the sinking.
Lusitania arriving in New York on her maiden voyage. As a historian, Patrick Beesly is known for his espousal of the view that in World War One the British Admiralty deliberately endangered RMS Lusitania, sunk while sailing without escort in 1915, among whose passengers were many Americans, to bring the United States into the war. [1]