Here’s a look at major ferry and ship sinking disasters throughout history. This timeline is not-all inclusive; various incidents with at least 1,000 fatalities are listed. Death tolls vary by source.

May 7, 1915 – The luxury liner Lusitania sinks off the coast of Ireland killing approximately 1,198 people after being torpedoed by a German submarine. February 26, 1916 – The French ship ...

Betty Campbell came first, in her home city of Cardiff, then writer Elaine Morgan in Mountain Ash, Cranogwen with her full ...

Lindsey bestowed the collection in memory of his daughter, Leslie Lindsey Mason, who died along with her newlywed husband in the 1915 sinking of the “Lusitania.” “From that time, our ...

“From Hanover Square North, at the End of a Tragic Day, the Voice of the People Again Arose” is an Ivesian recreation of the public reaction to the sinking of The Lusitania by a German submarin ...

In the fourteen minutes it took for the Empress of Ireland to sink, there was time to launch ... more passengers than either the Titanic or the Lusitania, and the tragedy stands as the worst ...

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Each of these groups had very different opinions. An illustration showing the sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania, 7th May 1915. A German submarine torpedoed the ship and 1,198 ...