RMS Lusitania

Lusitania Disaster. Setting sail from New York harbor on May 1, 1915, the R.M.S. Lusitania began a voyage to Liverpool, England. This voyage would be her last; and the last for over 1,000 of her passengers. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children aboard, only 761 passengers would survive the voyage. While on the seas, word made it to the ship that the seas would be increasingly inhabited with German submarines the closer they got to England, so to better prepare the passengers they readied the lifeboats on the ship. On May 7, 1915, without any warning, a German U-boat sent a torpedo into the bridge of the ship before a second torpedo made contact. The Lusitania was only 11 miles from the coast of Ireland, but there was no way to get the ship to safety. It only took a total of 18 minutes for her to completely sink after the second torpedo hit.…

Many Americans died as a result of the German attack on British ocean liner, the Lusitania in 1915. The sinking of the Lusitania had a big impact on America and the rest of the world during WWI. This attack on The Lusitania was one of the main causes of the United States entering WWI. On May 7, 1915, German U-Boat U-20 attacked the British oceanliner the Lusitania. 1198 people were killed, including 128 Americans. The ship sunk in only 18 minutes off of the coast of Ireland. The German’s…

There were German U-boats patrolling all around the Atlantic Ocean during the war. The ship that is unfortunately caught in this patrol was the RMS Lusitania. John Joseph Protasio, from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and currently resides in Ohio, earned a Bachelor’s of Art in History at Lycoming College, and a Master’s of Art in History at Arkansas State University. He also wrote To the Bottom of the Sea, a survey of maritime disasters, and two others: “On a Cold April Night, a tale about the…

Lusitania During this time in my life, it was already extremely difficult to cope with things. The loss of my husband was always in the back of my mind. Knowing that he wasn’t here to help raise my son, John, was the worst feeling that I have ever felt. Now that it had been five years since the death of my husband, I realized John and I needed a new beginning. I live in New York City and have heard of the Lusitania many times by almost everyone. It was a buzzing topic that was popular among…

After the sinking of Lusitania, in addition to the diplomatic anger that ensued, there was a great deal of public infuriation. Propaganda against Germany engulfed daily life. Posters were put up in professional art galleries, on the sides of buildings, in the average household home, in magazines, and in the workplace. The posters were targeted not only at the general audience to evoke emotions but also towards Woodrow Wilson pressuring him to take military action against Germany. The posters…

Lusitania and American Opinion Although the United States was a neutral country in 1914, when German U-boats sank the British passenger ship the Lusitania, the American public began to increasingly disapprove of German actions and began to sympathize with the British and her Allies. The United States’ isolated history with Europe prior to World War I encouraged the country to remain neutral during most of the war. Although World War I started in July 1914 when Serbian nationalists assassinated…

Germany invaded Belgium, which resulted in Great Britain entering the conflict. Great Britain had very close ties with Belgium because the two nations are neighboring countries. In response to Germany’s attack on Belgium, Britain declared war on Germany. (World History: Patterns of Interaction. pp. 747-748). In addition, The United States entered World War I when the German military engaged in unrestricted submarine warfare. Unrestricted submarine warfare is the use of submarines to sink without…

The lusitania was indeed a fascinating ship. However there were some aspects in which bunked down that magnifency. Winston Churchill explains how that is come to affect many people boarding that ship. One, the sinking of the Lusitania was not completely unexpected, two, information was already there to prevent the sinking of the ship, and the deceased plus survivors. In the American newspaper, there was cautionary advice by germans saying that passengers traveling on british ships that they…

A total of 2,701 deaths. Two incidents. One accidental, one targeted. The Titanic and the Lusitania. Around 1,503 people died from the sinking of the Titanic while around 1,198 people died on the Lusitania. These incidents were three years apart but what happened to both vessels are in no way similar. One hit an iceberg and sank in almost 3 hours. One was shot by the Germans and sank in 18 minutes. The Titanic sank, holding 2,208 people, and 1,530 died at the end of the night, meaning 678…

The sinking of the USS Indianapolis was one of America’s greatest naval tragedies as the Indianapolis was one of the flagship ships of the navy at the time as well as one of the fastest. On July 30th of 1945, at 4 minutes past midnight, on the route between Guam and Leyte Gulf, known as “Convoy Route Peddie,” the ship was hit by two of the six torpedoes that were fired at it by the I-58, a Japanese submarine.Ultimately only 317 men survived and were rescued in different groups at different…