U-20 — The World War I German U-Boat That Sank Lusitania It was World War I where submarines really hit their stride, ...

Queenstown, 8 May 1915 - More than 1,300 lives are feared lost after the Lusitania was hit by a ... when it was torpedoed by a German submarine shortly after 2pm. The torpedo exploded inside ...

Bryan says Lusitania sinking "no time to rock the boat" WASHINGTON ... make up the figures of the toll of death exacted by the German submarine which sent the giant Cunarder Lusitania to the ...

UC-97 became probably the only German submarine sunk within the continental United States. One of five U-boats turned over to the U.S. Navy for post-war study, she toured the Great Lakes as part ...

RMS Lusitania was an ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line and built on the Clyde. She was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 7 May 1915 and sank in eighteen minutes, eight miles off the Old Head of ...

On May 15, 1969, the USS Guitarro (SSN-665), a Sturgeon-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, sank while under construction ...

Lusitania and her sister ... from New York when she was torpedoed by German submarine U-20 off the coast of southern Ireland, on 7 May 1915. She sank in less than 20 minutes and 1198 men, women ...

The sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania by a German U-boat helped to shatter that hope. Woodrow Wilson, 1918. Courtesy: Library of Congress Wilson demanded an apology from Germany and ...