The Lusitania disaster 30 photos For a 1994 documentary, National Geographic interviewed survivors of the Lusitania. "All I could see was heads bobbing up and down," said one woman.

Nearly 100 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 ...

On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland and nearly 1,200 lives were lost. Library of Congress via WikiCommons When the First World War began, 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 ...

The ocean liner's sinking by a German U-boat led to the U.S. entering World War I. Erik Larson, author of Dead Wake, says British intelligence knew the ship was in danger and didn't tell anyone.

The Lusitania slipped below the waves a scant 18 min. after the German torpedo hit it. The Titanic stayed afloat for 2 hr. 40 min. — and human behavior differed accordingly.

One hundred years ago, the R.M.S. Lusitania, a Cunard liner en route from New York to Liverpool was sunk by a German U-Boat. It was attacked off the south coast of Ireland in the afternoon of May ...

Launched in 1906, the Lusitania had a passenger capacity of 2,198, 50 per cent more space than any other ship. Saloon class held 552 passengers, 460 in cabin class and 1,186 in third class.

News UK News World War I RMS Lusitania sinking: Incredible new undersea images shows WWI shipwreck that claimed 1,200 lives The attack on the passenger ship claimed 1,198 lives. The disaster, 100 ...

How the infamous sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-boat in WW1 led to 1,200 deaths and arguably helped draw the United States into the conflict.