President Woodrow Wilson had been re-elected in 1916 on a platform of “having kept us out of war,” and the Germans, realizing that sinking the Lusitania was a public relations disaster, pulled ...

The Lusitania disaster 30 photos. For a 1994 documentary, National Geographic interviewed survivors of the Lusitania. "All I could see was heads bobbing up and down," said one woman.

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.” ...

Two years later, after Germany broke its promise that followed the Lusitania disaster to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare, the U.S., under President Woodrow Wilson, finally entered World War I.

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.

Neither the Lusitania nor the Titanic was the largest maritime disaster, not by a long shot. Yet somehow, their fateful journeys remain a source of intrigue for both researchers and curiosity seekers.

Cunard’s gigantic and luxurious Lusitania set sail from New York on May 1, 1915, bound for Liverpool, England, with a full roster of first-, second- and third-class passengers, including a ...

The Telegraph of London has reported that the last survivor of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 has died. The newspaper reports: Audrey Lawson-Johnston, who died on Tuesday aged 95, was the ...

Reporting the Lusitania disaster, the Tribune noted that during the week of its fatal voyage, 28 other ships were sunk by German torpedoes and mines.