On May 7th, 1915 the Cunard luxury liner Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland. 20 year old wireless ...

RMS Lusitania looked like the glamorous future of Atlantic travel, but at high speed her stern could vibrate so violently that key spaces became unusable. This breaks down the propeller wake ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On May 7, it will be exactly 100 years since the sinking of the luxury steamship Lusitania by a German submarine. A new best-selling novel is exploring the question: Did it have to ...

Indeed, although I am a die-hard fan of Agatha Christie’s work, I must confess that this text is a cut above Christie’s ...

At about 2 p.m. on May 7, 1915, Theodate Pope of Farmington, and her companion, Harvard man, Edwin Friend, were strolling along the promenade deck of the ocean liner R.M.S. Lusitania on the starboard ...

The legends of lost ships call to us like siren songs. We never tire of the Titanic's re-telling, and as we near the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania -- on May 7 -- there are two new ...

On May 7, 1915, the ocean liner RMS Lusitania was attacked by a German submarine on its way to Liverpool, UK from New York. The ship’s sinking and the 1198 deaths that resulted from it marked a ...

One hundred years ago, 128 Americans died among more than a thousand in the sinking of what was then the greatest ocean liner in the world. In response, the U.S. entered World War I. That's the story ...

The Lusitania sailed regularly between Liverpool (above) and New York from 1907 to 1915 Some 1,200 people died when the ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat in World War One. A centenary ...