Passenger Certificate

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Passenger Certificate

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This item is a passenger certificate issued for the steamship Lusitania, owned by the Cunard Steamship Company. The certificate lists the number of passengers, divided between first, second, and third class, as well as the number of crew members. The certificate also lists the number of lifeboats and their capacity, as well as other live-saving devices such as life-buoys and life-jackets.

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National Archives at New York

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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, ...