On May 7th, 1915 the Cunard luxury liner Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland. 20 year old wireless operator David McCormick stopped to take some photos of the scene and his ...

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 ...

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 ...

LIGHTS IN THE SKY: A meteor of large size and particular brightness flew through the heavens and was seen by a number of citizens of North Sioux City. C.L. Finley tells a Journal reporter he saw three ...

This text-only First World War poster details the sinking of the Lusitania in May 1915. After the invasion of Belgium, the torpedoing of the Lusitania was the second most powerful event used in ...

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 ...

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 beneath ...