When the German U-boats targeted the Lusitania with a torpedo, the ship sank more quickly than expected. Here's why that ...

It was perhaps never more poignantly played out than during the two greatest maritime disasters in history: the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. A team of behavioral economists from ...

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 ...

The disasters of the RMS Titanic and the RMS Lusitania were two of the greatest maritime tragedies of their era. In April of 1912, the Harland & Wolff, Belfast-built Titanic sank on its maiden ...

Would you prefer to own memorabilia from the Titanic or the Lusitania, or neither? Tell us why in the comments section.

Some passengers canceled out of security concerns. But wasn’t the Lusitania cloaked in the same myth of invincibility as the Titanic? Should the ship ever have set sail? It’s very important ...

Records from two nearly 100-year-old shipwrecks, the Titanic and the Lusitania, have given researchers new insight into human selfishness — and altruism. On one boat, it seems, the men thought ...

The insights come from a new comparison of survival data from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 with the loss of 1517 lives out of 2207, and the fateful torpedoing of the Lusitania three years ...

Examining two shipwrecks, the Titanic and the Lusitania, researchers recently found the longer passengers had to react to the disaster, the more likely they were to follow social mores.

It was "very, very orderly behavior." Sponsor Message Savage has compared the behavior of the passengers on the Titanic with those on the Lusitania, another ship that also sunk at about the same time.