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Britain domestically produced the vast majority of its WWI ammunition though imports to supplement supplies were being considered at this time. Lusitania was officially carrying among her cargo 4200 cases of rifle/machine-gun ammunition, 1,250 cases of empty shrapnel artillery shells, and the artillery fuzes for those shells stored separately ...
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.
General warning issued by Imperial German Embassy, appearing coincidentally [23] alongside an advert for the Lusitania, published a day before the ship sailed. [24] On 7 May 1915, the liner RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by U-20, 13 mi (21 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, and sank in just 18 minutes. Of the 1,960 people aboard, 1,197 were ...
Poland–Lithuania vs Swedish Empire and Russia: Eastern Europe French Wars of Religion: 2–4 million [42] 1562–1598 French catholics vs Huguenots: France Korean War: 2.5–3.5 million [43] [21] 1950–1953 North Korea and allies vs. South Korea and allies Korean Peninsula Hundred Years' War: 2.3–3.5 million [44] [45] [27] 1337–1453
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. He also torpedoed RMS Hesperian on 4 September 1915 and SS Cymric on 8 May 1916.
450,000 Poles died and around one million were wounded while fighting in the Austrian, Russian, and German armies, which by 1916 included close to 2 million Polish soldiers. [11] Several hundred thousand Polish civilians were moved to labor camps in Germany, [12] and 800,000 were deported by the Russians from Congress Poland to the East. [11]
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.