On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people.

"Even though it made no mention of the Lusitania, it was widely interpreted to be aimed at the ship," said Erik Larson, the author of the New York Times bestseller, "Dead Wake," about the Lusitania.

A Bazetta resident survived the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania and offered a key eyewitness account of the tragedy that killed 1,186 people.

One hundred years ago, a German U-boat fired a single torpedo into the hull of the RMS Lusitania, a hulking ship with record-breaking speed that was carrying nearly 2,000 people from New York City ...

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What’s more, the ships sank just three years apart — the Titanic was claimed by an iceberg on April 14, 1912, and the Lusitania by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. But on the decks and in the ...

One hundred years ago, on May 7, 1915, the Cunard luxury liner Lusitania was sunk by a German torpedo off the Irish coast. It was the fastest, most luxurious passenger ship ever to have sailed the ...

On May 7, 1915, tragically 1,201 people died after the RMS Lusitania, a passenger ship, was hit by a German U-boat torpedo off the coast of Cobh, County Cork. The anniversary of the sinking of ...

Passengers and crew: 1,949 Sunk: May 7, 1915, torpedoed by a German U-boat Time to sink: 18 minutes Deaths: 1,198 Survival rate: 38.5% The tragic voyages of the RMS Titanic and RMS Lusitania have ...