Lusitania Down — Survivor Recalls Torpedoed Ocean Liner’s Terrifying Final Minutes

“Only my training from boyhood up, in the water and under it, gave me the courage to jump.” ON MAY 7, 1915, the German U-boat U-20 fired a torpedo into the side of the passenger liner RMS Lusitania as it…

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“Remember the Lusitania!”

IT WAS JUST after 1:30 p.m. on May 7, 1915 when the lookouts aboard U-20, a German submarine operating 14 miles off the coast of south-western Ireland, spied a tempting target: the RMS Lusitania, a 31,500 ton British passenger…

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