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The Lusitania was a much larger and faster ship, with a better chance of evading or ramming, though commercial vessels only successfully sunk a submarine through ramming once during the war (in 1918 the White Star Liner HMT Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic and Britannic, rammed SM U-103 in the English Channel).
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.
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 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 7 May 1915, the RMS Lusitania passenger liner was travelling from New York to Liverpool, when she was torpedoed by a German U-boat, around 18 kilometres (9 + 1 ⁄ 2 nautical miles) from the Old Head of Kinsale. The liner sank in 18 minutes, killing 1,199 of the 1,959 passengers and crew.
Originally a model of Lusitania, it was converted to represent Mauretania after Lusitania was torpedoed. [48] Another large builder's model is situated aboard the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, currently located in Dubai.
Carson couldn’t help but share his rendition of the Titanic’s storied past during a game against Sugar Land on June 23. “So, the guy who fired him made the ship sink, not the iceberg ...
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.