On that same day a U-boat sunk the U.S. liner Housatonic off the coast of Sicily. On March 18, German submarines sank three U.S.-registered vessels, the City of Memphis, the Vigilante, and the Illinois, without giving any type of warning. On April 2 President Woodrow Wilson argued ...
A German U-boat struck and sunk the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner underway from New York to Liverpool, England, on May 7, 1915, less than a year since World War I (1914-1918) erupted throughout Europe. More than 1,100 of more than 1,900 passengers and staff members on board...
Lusitania, in this context, refers to the RMS Lusitania, which was a British passenger ship that was sunk in 1915 by a German U-boat. Lusitania also refers to an ancient Iberian Roman province. Why was the sinking of the Lusitania so controversial? The sinking of the Lusitania was so cont...
在5:42处,锚首次下降,然后拖船将船引导至泊位以完成航行。 Jumbo Huang Notes: RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew. The sinking presaged the United S...
Career: September 7, 1907-May 7, 1915 –Sunk by German submarine U-20. The History of the RMS Lusitania –A Brief Look: The keel of the Lusitania was laid down on Wednesday, August 17, 1904, at the shipyards of John Brown & Co. on the River Clyde in Scotland. She was slated to...
The United States was brought face to face with the Great War and with what it meant in ruthless destruction of life when, on May 7, 1915, the crack Cunard Liner Lusitania, bound from New York to Liverpool, with 1,959 persons aboard, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off ...
The loss of theLusitaniaprovoked great outrage in the United States and became a factor in them joining the war. It was even suggested by an American Congressman, Richmond Hobson that the British Government had sunk the ship to entice America into the war. ...
000 at auction in London next Friday.Anna Enderson, 40, a nursing matron from Bootle, drowned when unarmed British ship the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in May 1915.Now the Norwegian-born widow's British and Mercantile Marine war medals have surfaced at London-...
Our collection about the SS Lusitania of the Cunard Line includes articles and books about the sinking of the great and luxurious ocean liner by the German U-Boat and the aftermath that caused the US to enter World War I.
After the Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, the loss of American citizens swayed opinion in the US in favor of joining World War I.