Lusitania letter, between 1907 and 1915.

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Lusitania letter, between 1907 and 1915.

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The collection consists of a note in child's handwriting, dated December 18, sending Christmas greetings from Mary to Paul. It is written on the stationary of the R.M.S. "Lusitania" and also has four drawings of ships and flags obviously done by a child as well.

0.1 linear feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7284036

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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, ...