Sinking of RMS Lusitania
A German U-boat torpedoed the British liner Lusitania off Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people and intensifying international opposition to unrestricted submarine warfare.
Why Sinking of RMS Lusitania matters
A German U-boat torpedoed the British liner Lusitania off Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people and intensifying international opposition to unrestricted submarine warfare.
This page brings together database records matching Lusitania, RMS Lusitania and sinking of Lusitania. Use the chronological results to compare dates, people, places, countries and related events without losing the wider historical sequence.
Sources and provenance
Historical records on this page are drawn from the World History Database maintained by Malcolm Badley and are selected dynamically using the research terms shown above. The historical image is credited to its source above. Record wording and dates should be checked against primary or specialist secondary sources when used for academic citation. Corrections can be sent to [email protected].