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RMS Lusitania 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.
English: The Lusitania, which sailed from New York for Liverpool May 1, 1915 with 1,959 souls on board, was sunk by a German submarine on May 7, [1915] with a loss, including women and children, of 1,195.
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.
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: Map of course taken by RMS Lusitania (based on Bailey and Ryan's "The Lusitania Disaster" on final day, together with approximate course of SM U-20 (based on Room 40 minute sheet), include her last few sinkings. Additional navigational markers are shown which are mentioned in messages to Lusitania, as well as location of Queenstown ...
RMS Lusitania, before her launch on 7 June 1906. RMS Aquitania, shortly before her launch in April 1913. In the early 1900s, the company innovated marine engineering technology through the development of the Brown-Curtis turbine, which had been originally developed and patented by the U.S. company International Curtis Marine Turbine Co. These ...
RMS Aquitania was an ocean liner of the Cunard Line in service from 1914 to 1950. She was designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank , Scotland . She was launched on 21 April 1913 [ 5 ] and sailed on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York on 30 May 1914.
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