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REMEMBER THE LUSITANIA.(two books about the sinking of the Lusitania)
The sinking of the Cunard liner Lusitania, on May 7, 1915, will always play second fiddle, in the ensemble of maritime disasters, to that of White Star's Titanic, a little more than three years earlier. Of the two glamorous great ships, the Lusitania was the smaller by nearly a hundred feet of length and sixteen thousand gross tons; it had been in service for eight years and for exactly one hundred North Atlantic crossings before being torpedoed by a German Unterseeboot off the southern coast of Ireland, while the "unsinkable" Titanic, of course, epitomized human fallibility by rubbing up against an easily avoidable iceberg on its maiden voyage. Yet the scale of the ...
- Explorer hopes to end 78-year-old mystery of the Lusitania's sinking....
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Robbins, Gary August 2, 1993 700+ words
...Germany, because 128 of the Lusitania's passengers were Americans...government has said the Lusitania was carrying rifles and...published advertisements in New York newspapers warning ships such as the Lusitania not to enter the war zone...
- TV Preview; `Lusitania': The Truths Beneath The Surface
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Ken Ringle April 9, 1994 700+ words
...but as Ballard notes, the Lusitania "was really an auxiliary...before going down. The Lusitania sank in less than 20 minutes...secret maritime archives in New York and Liverpool, Ballard found the Lusitania was indeed carrying war...
- Lusitania: Saga and Myth.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Hanks, Robert K. March 22, 2004 700+ words
Lusitania: Saga and Myth. By David Ramsay. (New York and London: W. W. Norton...95.) The sinking of the Lusitania by U-20 in 1915 has always...he traces the history of the Lusitania from its construction to the...
- SINKING OF LINER LUSITANIA LED TO U.S. ROLE IN WORLD WAR I.(LOCAL)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot May 4, 2003 700+ words
...reaction to the sinking of the Lusitania that caused my father and...Launched in June 1906, the Lusitania was not only the first ocean...American passengers sailed from New York City for Liverpool despite...Capt. William Turner, the Lusitania's skipper, had received...
- HISTORY; The sinking of the Lusitania; A scholar's `Epic Tragedy' brings this...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Winegar, Karin May 5, 2002 700+ words
...prodigious work on the Lusitania, a 785-foot...en route from New York City to Liverpool...lifeboats. The Lusitania was the fastest...published in the New York Times on the...Street Journal and New York Times. HISTORY Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy...
- Last Voyage of the Lusitania.
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) Rothenberg, Robert S. September 1, 1994 700+ words
...of the Cunard liner Lusitania by a German Uboat...unsatisfactory ending. Lusitania had sailed from New York on May 1, 1915...had appeared in the New York papers next to Cunard...of the sailing of Lusitania. This generally was...
- Did a government conspiracy send 1,201 people to their deaths aboard the...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) May 20, 2002 700+ words
...staggering 1,201 died in the Lusitania disaster, with 764 saved. Lusitania had almost completed her voyage from New York to Liverpool; the coast of Ireland...Kinsale. Unlike the Titanic, Lusitania's lifeboats could easily accommodate...
- GREAT BRIDGE DIVER SHARES TIES WITH FATED LUXURY LINER LUSITANIA.(CHESAPEAKE...
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot May 27, 2001 700+ words
...Conklin caught wind of the Lusitania salvage project...city of Cork.'' The Lusitania was a fast British luxury...that sailed between New York and England during World...advertisement in the New York Times warning Americans...salvage rights to the Lusitania from Lloyds of ...