The Lusitania remains fodder for conspiracy theorists. "It's the maritime grassy knoll," said Larson. "There are so many miraculous or nearly so things that happened, that leaves room for people ...

Owning a fragment of history — a Gettysburg bullet, a Coolidge campaign button — is fun, so in 1968 Gregg Bemis became an owner of the Lusitania. This 787-feet-long passenger liner has been ...

Owning a fragment of history — a Gettysburg bullet, a Coolidge campaign button — is fun, so in 1968 Gregg Bemis became an owner of the Lusitania. This 787-feet-long passenger liner has been ...

The ocean liner's sinking by a German U-boat led to the U.S. entering World War I. Erik Larson, author of Dead Wake, says British intelligence knew the ship was in danger and didn't tell anyone.

The arrival of the Lusitania at the outer bar 4 days and 20 hours after leaving Daunt's Rock on the Irish coast is a great achievement of modern ocean navigation, and nearly equals the highest ...

In 1915, a German submarine sunk the Lusitania, a British passenger ship, killing nearly 1,200 people including 123 Americans. The story of that disaster is the subject of a new book, “Dead Wake.” ...

A 1915 photograph of an artist’s depiction of the torpedoing of the Lusitania. The luxury liner, carrying 1,959 passengers and crew, was sunk by a German U-boat. (Library of Congress/ Prints and ...

This is the story of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania and how it lit the path to war for the United States of America. More for You. At least 24 are dead, and girls are missing from a camp, ...

Passengers and crew: 1,949 Sunk: May 7, 1915, torpedoed by a German U-boat Time to sink: 18 minutes Deaths: 1,198 Survival rate: 38.5% The tragic voyages of the RMS Titanic and RMS Lusitania have ...

The Lusitania slipped below the waves a scant 18 min. after the German torpedo hit it. The Titanic stayed afloat for 2 hr. 40 min. — and human behavior differed accordingly.