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The wreck of Lusitania lies on her starboard side at an approximately 30-degree angle in 305 feet (93 metres) of sea water. She is severely collapsed onto her starboard side as a result of the force with which she slammed into the sea floor, and over decades, Lusitania has deteriorated significantly faster than Titanic because of the corrosion ...
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 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.
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.
English: Side plan view of Lusitania. Locations relevant to sinking are highlighted: Forward cargo hold/magazine with war supplies, coal bunker, and boiler rooms. No. 5 boat, destroyed by vertical plume from torpedo hit is labelled. Based on File:RMS_Lusitania_deck_plans.jpg.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 20:55, 29 April 2022: 3,438 × 5,025 (1.2 MB): NorthofNow: Uploaded a work by Library of Congress, Washington, DC New York : New York Times, Co., 1919. from The war of the nations : portfolio in rotogravure etchings : compiled from the Mid-week pictorial. https://lccn.loc.gov/19013740 with UploadWizard
The debris field was found close to the Titanic wreck
Lusitania wreck telegraph.jpg 384 × 259; 22 KB This page was last edited on 1 March 2021, at 21:43 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...