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Map showing the movements of RMS Lusitania and SM U-20 prior to the sinking of the former. Marked are ships sunk by U-20 on 6 and 7 May and key geographic points. On 7 May 1915, Lusitania was nearing the end of her 202nd crossing, bound for Liverpool from New York, and was scheduled to dock at the Prince's Landing Stage later that afternoon ...
The Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool, which was the home port of the Cunard line, has a large exhibit about Lusitania sinking. In 1982 one of the ship's four-bladed propellers was raised from the wreck; it is now on permanent display at the Royal Albert Dock. [144] A propeller from the wreck is on display at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas ...
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.
On this day, 100 years ago, the RMS Lusitania sank in just 18 minutes. Nearly 1,200 people lost their lives on May 7, 1915 when the British liner was torpedoed by a German submarine during WWI.
In 18 minutes, Lusitania sank with 1,197 casualties. The wreck lies in 300 feet (91 m) of water. Fifteen minutes after he had fired his torpedo, Schwieger noted in his war diary: "It looks as if the ship will stay afloat only for a very short time. [I gave order to] dive to 25 metres (82 ft) and leave the area seawards.
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 area is the nearest point of land to where the RMS Lusitania was sunk in 1915, 18 kilometres (9 + 1 ⁄ 2 nautical miles) from the site of the sinking. [2] Currently, access to the Old Head is restricted as it is on the site of a private golf course, which has proven to be controversial.
The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 14, 1912, after months of being declared the "unsinkable ship." The maritime disaster took the lives of approximately 1,500 people who either sank with ...