On this day in 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed the Lusitania, a British ocean liner, off the coast of Ireland. Of the 1,959 people on board, 1,195 perished at sea. The 32,000-ton liner, commissioned ...

WASHINGTON, May 8, 1915 (UP) - After talking with President Wilson tonight concerning the issuance of a statement on the Lusitania disaster, Secretary Tumulty, at 9 p.m., gave out the following: "Of ...

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This spring is the 100th anniversary of one of the most notorious maritime tragedies in history – but there is probably a lot you didn’t know about the sinking of the Lusitania. As World War I was ...

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On May 7, 1915, the news media reported that the British ocean liner Lusitania had been torpedoed by a World War I German U-boat off the coast of Ireland. More than 1,100 people died. Here is a story ...

18 June 1915: Some of the testimony given by the ship’s staff contradicted that of witnesses The Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the Lusitania was resumed yesterday at the Central Hall, ...

Jerome B Murphy was the Cunard area manager for Queenstown (now Cobh) when the 'Lusitania' sank 100 years ago next week. His great-granddaughter Bayveen O'Connell recalls how his small, heroic part in ...

On this day in 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner, off the coast of Ireland. Of the 1,959 people on board, 1,195 perished at sea. The 32,000-ton liner, ...