Sinking of the RMS Lusitania: Titanic's main rival

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7 mai 1915

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Événement

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51.42° N, 8.55° W

Placé à : coordinates of the event it links, Sinking of RMS Lusitania.

Sinking of the RMS Lusitania: Titanic's main rival, the British ocean liner Lusitania, is sunk by Imperial German Navy U-boat U-20 off the south-west coast of Ireland, killing 1,199 civilians en route from New York City to Liverpool. The best-known of the celebrities on board is American sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt.

World War I maritime disaster

RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. The attack took place in the declared maritime war-zone around the United Kingdom, three months after unrestricted submarine warfare against the ships of the United Kingdom had been announced by Germany following…

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