Room 40
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 Atlantic…y millions of people over decades. The Admiralty knew things that the passengers did not. The naval intelligence division, operating out of Room 40 in the Old Admiralty Building, had begun to intercept and decode German wireless transmissions. The German Navy used radio to communicate w…
- A Notice in the Newspapers…ed that the ship would remain afloat long enough to reach it. The Admiralty had other information that might have been more useful. Through Room 40, its cryptographic unit, the Admiralty was intercepting and decoding German naval communications. The British had broken the German naval c…
- Captain Turner’s Orders…uring the crossing. The Admiralty knew more than Turner. That was the architecture of the situation, and it was structural, not accidental. Room 40, the naval intelligence unit operating from the Old Building in Whitehall, was intercepting and decrypting German naval wireless traffic. T…