Old Head of Kinsale
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- Eighteen Minutes The Sinking of the Lusitania and the Eighteen Minutes That Changed the World · Liszt Think
On May 7, 1915, a single torpedo from U-20 struck the Lusitania off the Old Head of Kinsale.
- Captain Turner’s Orders…ts and the ambiguous nature of these instructions. The directives told Turner to avoid headlands. The Irish coast was lined with them — the Old Head of Kinsale, Hook Head, Tuskar Rock — prominent points of land where ships naturally converged on familiar courses, where a submarine could lie in wait…
- The Submarine’s Patrol…eet them. Schwieger made his calculation. He ordered the helmsman to steer west-southwest, toward the shipping lanes that converged off the Old Head of Kinsale. The diesel engines pushed the submarine forward at twelve knots. The sea stretched flat and grey in every direction. The war diary noted t…
- The Crossing…ay how many. They did not say that one of them was U-20, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger, and that it was positioned off the Old Head of Kinsale, on the route the Lusitania was following. Schwieger’s patrol, unknown to Turner, was entering its final phase. U-20 had sunk two ships in…