Fannie E. Salt, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Henry J. Salt, Deceased v. The Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd.

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Fannie E. Salt, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Henry J. Salt, Deceased v. The Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd.

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This file unit consists of documents comprising Miscellaneous Civil Case File #1475 of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. In this case, the libellant, Fannie E. Salt, petitioned the court for monetary relief from the Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd., the owner and operator of the RMS Lusitania, claiming that Cunard was negligent in its operation of the Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915. The libellant's husband, Henry J. Salt, was among the 1,198 passengers and crew that lost their lives as a result of the sinking.

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Lusitania (Steamship)

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The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on May 7, 1915 by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland; 1,198 passengers and crew died. The Cunard Line launched Lusitania in 1906. When RMS Lusitania left New York for Britain on May 1, 1915, German submarine warfare was intensifying in the Atlantic. On the afternoon of May 7, a German U-boat torpedoed Lusitania inside the declared war zone. A second, unexplained, internal explosion, probably that of munitions she was carrying, ...