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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 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.
Ship Flag Sunk date Notes Coordinates MY Ady Gil New Zealand: 7 January 2010 A trimaran, formerly named Earthrace, that broke the global circumnavigation record in 2008. It was later converted into an anti-whaling ship, and was sunk in a collision with MV Shōnan Maru 2, sparking a series of legal disputes.
List of shipwrecks: 22 January 2025 Ship State Description Unnamed submarine unknown An abandoned suspected narco-submarine was found by the fishing vessel Maria Cristina at the entrance to the Camarinas-Muxia estuary, Galicia, Spain. While being towed to the port of Camariñas it broke in two with the aft section sinking. [19]
The discovery could become "one of the top five underwater strikes of all time."
Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck. Researchers date the find to either the fifth or sixth century B.C. Six ...
A cargo ship, wrecked off the coast of Inisheer, the smallest of the Aran Islands, and has since been thrown above high tide mark at Carraig na Finise. Islanders rescued the entire crew from the stricken vessel – an event captured in a pictorial display at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoghaire , County Dublin .
A race is underway to recover the shipwreck, with questions pending over who will claim its treasure, writes Martha McHardy Inside the ‘holy grail’ shipwreck being pulled up from the ocean ...