This great blast, naturally, was a primary factor in the disaster. The National Archives quotes Walther Schwieger, commander of the U-20, as later writing, "Clear bow shot at 700 [meters] . . .

The Glasgow built Lusitania dipped below the water’s surface and passed down to the sea’s bottom - its final resting place. In all 1,198 passengers and crew perished. Read more ...

Cobh will host a solemn and dignified tribute this May as the annual Lusitania Commemoration Ceremony takes place on Sunday, May 11, marking 110 years since the tragic sinking of the RMS Lusitania ...

WASHINGTON, May 8, 1915 (UP) - After talking with President Wilson tonight concerning the issuance of a statement on the Lusitania disaster, Secretary Tumulty, at 9 p.m., gave out the following: ...

While over 1,500 people died in the Titanic disaster, around 9,000 were killed in the worst ship disaster ever. Here we list five of the worst ship disasters of the 19-20th centuries.

By far the largest disaster in American naval history, the bombing of the Hawaiian naval base of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 was the event that brought the U.S. into World War II.

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.

When a German submarine torpedoed the R.M.S. Lusitania, en route from New York to Britain, on May 7, 1915, 128 Americans died in the ocean liner's sinking.

Lusitania Museum/Old Head Signal Tower Group spokesman, Con Hayes said that as a local voluntary community group, they were delighted when Mr Bemis gifted them the wreck both in recognition of ...