Cork marked the 109th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania during the First World War with a series of special events and ceremonies on Monday afternoon. The liner was torpedoed by a German ...

Cobh will host a solemn and dignified tribute this May as the annual Lusitania Commemoration Ceremony takes place on Sunday, May 11, marking 110 years since the tragic sinking of the RMS Lusitania off ...

On May 7, 1915, the Germany submarine (U-boat) U-20 sank the British ocean liner Lusitania. Approximately 1200 civilians died; more than 100 were U.S. citizens. In reply to President Woodrow Wilson’s ...

One hundred years ago on May 7, 1915, the giant British luxury passenger ship Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine U-20 and sunk as it approached England. Aboard 1,198 of 1,959 passengers and ...

BLOOMINGTON — One of the pivotal events of World War I was the sinking of the British luxury liner Lusitania on May 7, 1915, when a single torpedo from a German U-boat claimed the lives of 1,198 ...

The 100 th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania has been written about and discussed this week from a historical perspective. Seventy-five years ago, the painful memories were closer to the ...