On May 1, 1915, the RMS Lusitania sailed from New York, bound for Liverpool. On May 7, it was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Old Head of Kinsale on the southern Irish coast. The ship’s ...

The story begins with introducing the reader to the captain of the Lusitania, William Thomas Turner. Under Turner the Lusitania broke all records for speed, one of the era’s great transatlantic ...

The RMS Lusitania sank on this day, May 7, 1915, off the coast of Co Cork. ... just one week before the Lusitania was torpedoed, Captain Turner had been called to the New York law offices of Hunt, ...

It was a foggy morning as Captain William Turner navigated the RMS Lusitania through the final and most precarious leg of its voyage from New York City to Liverpool, England. On May 7, 1915, the ...

Passengers and crew: 1,949 Sunk: May 7, 1915, torpedoed by a German U-boat Time to sink: 18 minutes Deaths: 1,198 Survival rate: 38.5% The tragic voyages of the RMS Titanic and RMS Lusitania have ...

‘Running away to sea’ Michael Dow, grandson of the captain of the Lusitania, Daniel Dow, told how as a young boy 130 years ago, his grandfather watched ships passing the Old Head of Kinsale ...

The Lusitania's captain was confident the ship was too fast to be attacked, ... Was the RMS Lusitania carrying arms? Duration: 02:38 Broadcasts. Fri 5 Jun 2015 23:30 GMT.

The RMS Lusitania was built by John Brown & Co. Ltd, and belonged to the prestigious Cunard shipping line, which is still running some of the largest ships in the world today. The Lusitania was ...

It was just after 2:00 p.m. when spotters saw the track of a torpedo heading for the starboard bow. The captain of the RMS Lusitania, William Turner, felt his ship shudder as the torpedo struck.

The centenary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania will be marked by a red rose, plaque and the names of the hundreds of souls who perished being placed on the wreck. Gregg Bemis, the 87-year-old ...