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

The ocean liner sunk in 18 minutes, killing 1,198 – 128 of whom were Americans. PHOTOS: Lusitania Sinking: 100 Years Later The Lusitania, the premier vessel of the Cunard fleet, set sail from ...

Article continues below The sinking heightened anti-German feeling ... Merseyside Maritime Museum’s exhibition about the liner – Lusitania: Life, Loss, Legacy – is open now.

The sinking of the Lusitania prompted a flood of propaganda ... Walther Schwieger, the U-20 boat captain that sunk the ship and killed 1,200 people, was described as a man who "couldn't hurt ...

In this documentary, we are going to examine the events surrounding probably the most significant sinking of a ship by a U-boat ... of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania and how it lit the path ...

On the 100 th anniversary of its sinking, Lusitania remains the most well-known passenger ship to be lost during World War I. However, it was not the first liner to be sunk when it was torpedoed ...

The Lusitania, writes Windchy, was “refitted as a cargo ship with hidden compartments ... as they would in 1917 with the sinking of U.S. merchant ships in similar waters. Had Wilson publicly ...

Visuals help. In his history class, he used to show students a poster of the sinking ship and laminated copies of the 1915 New York Times with the banner headline, “Lusitania Sunk By a Submarine ...

Passengers, ship crew and U-20 crew come alive from ... My parents had strong childhood memories of the Lusitania sinking. Many older baby boomers like me learned this bit of history from them.