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Sinking of RMS Lusitania on a map of Ireland 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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Jack Doyle's grave Sinking of RMS Lusitania Memorial. The Old Church Cemetery (also known as Cobh Cemetery) is an ancient cemetery on the outskirts of the town of Cobh, County Cork, Ireland which contains a significant number of important burials, including a number 3 mass graves and several individual graves containing the remains of 193 [1] victims of the passenger ship RMS Lusitania which ...
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.
3. J. P. Morgan. John Pierpoint Morgan—more commonly known as "J.P. Morgan" and namesake and founder of J.P. Morgan Private Bank—was present at the Titanic launch party in 1911 because he also ...
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.