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 ...

Despite evasive maneuvers, the German U-boat was struck and sank with all 73 crew members aboard, ending its mission. Decades later, the wreck was found, with toxic mercury leaking into the ocean.

2,000 Allied ships had been sunk by the end of 1916, many by U-boats. These stark statistics frame the narrative in The Hunt for Lady Olive and the German Submarine (BBC Four). The Lady Olive was ...

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 ...

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 ...