Lusitania
Books
- 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.
- The Queen of the AtlanticThe Liverpool landing stage held the Lusitania on the afternoon of 25 July 1914, and the river Mersey ran thick with small craft come to see her off. Whistles sounded from tugs and ferri…
- A Notice in the Newspapers…shipping pages found a juxtaposition that should have stopped them. There, in a narrow column, ran the Cunard Line’s advertisement for the Lusitania, scheduled to sail that afternoon for Liverpool via Queenstown. The advertisement promised speed, comfort, and the reliable service of the…
- Captain Turner’s Orders…nd miles of ocean, each following orders, each carrying out an assigned role in a drama that neither fully understood. On the bridge of the Lusitania, berthed at Pier 54 on the North River, a man in a new bowler hat was reading through the season’s sailing orders one final time. William T…