Cargo Manifest

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Cargo Manifest

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This item is a manifest of local cargo shipped on board of the Lusitania of the Cunard Steamship Company, sailing from New York to Liverpool, England.

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SNAC Resource ID: 11613110

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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, ...