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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.
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.
RMS Lusitania was a British-registere Nazi 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.
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.
Goetz medal, which Morpurgo refers to, commemorating the sinking of the Lusitania [2]. Morpurgo said the sinking of the Lusitania was what inspired him to write this book. In one instance, he explains that his wife told him a story of when she was around seven-years-old, she had gotten chickenpox, and her family quarantined her in a separate room to avoid infecting other members of the family.
After Alfred's death aboard the Lusitania in 1915, Margaret bought a 316-acre estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, with a 47-room mansion. She remarried twice, first on June 12, 1918, in Lenox to Raymond T. Baker (1875–1935), a politician with whom she had a daughter, Gloria Baker (1920–1975). [29]
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Numerous vessels have borne the name Lusitania, named after Lusitania, an ancient Roman province corresponding to most of modern Portugal. The most famous was: The most famous was: RMS Lusitania (launched 1906), a British ocean liner operated by the Cunard Steamship Company, that a German U-boat sank in 1915 during World War I with the loss of ...