Hydrographic Chart of the South Coast of Ireland to Land's End

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Hydrographic Chart of the South Coast of Ireland to Land's End

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This item shows the approaches to the Irish and Bristol Channels. Hand drawn lines indicate the path of the Lusitania, which had not followed the recommended wartime procedures of changing course in an irregular pattern to avoid submarines.

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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, ...