Panelists examined the wartime role of the sinking of the Lusitania, ... On May 7, 1915, the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland, ...

Bryan says Lusitania sinking "no time to rock the boat" WASHINGTON, May 8, 1915 (UP) - After talking with President Wilson tonight concerning the issuance of a statement on the Lusitania disaster, ...

Owning a fragment of history — a Gettysburg bullet, a Coolidge campaign button — is fun, so in 1968 Gregg Bemis became an owner of the Lusitania. This 787-feet-long passenger liner has been ...

This week (May 7) in 1915, the Lusitania, a British luxury liner owned by the Cunard Line, was sunk by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 people, including 123 Americans.

The vessel’s sinking nearly 100 years shifted public opinion in the United States and propelled it toward joining England in World War I. The RMS Lusitania, which was torpedoed and sunk by a ...

Erik Larson recreates the sinking of the Lusitania by a German u-boat in 1915. ... “The truth is that the Lusitania is the safest boat on the sea,” Cunard officials claimed.