As wrecks go, the Lusitania is second only to the Titanic ... 1,197 of its passengers died when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat in May 1915. A second explosion — the cause of which is ...

The sinking was a major factor that brought the United States in to the war in 1917It was one of four that drove RMS Lusitania across the Atlantic. Lusitania and her sister-ship Mauretania were ...