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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.
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 sinking of the Lusitania, that greatest of ocean tragedies, is here portrayed by a British artist from description and with the aid of survivors. The markings on the picture give the most important details. The moment chosen in when boats are pulling away with survivors.
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 ...
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.
The bodies of the five passengers aboard the Titanic sub that was lost in a “catastrophic implosion” near the wreck may never be recovered from the floor of the Atlantic, says the US Coast Guard.
A sonar image of the shipwreck of the Soviet Navy ship Virsaitis in Estonian waters Johan Christian Dahl: Shipwreck on the Coast of Norway, 1832 Bow of RMS Titanic, first discovered in 1985 Wreck of Costa Concordia. A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water ...
The final body from the luxury yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily has been found. Italian coast guard sources told PEOPLE on Friday, Aug. 23 that the "last person still missing in the Palermo ...