R.M.S. Lusitania of the Cunard line. She was not a sister ship of the Titanic and the two ships were quite different mechanically the Lusitania was from-start Turbine driven, the Titanic was mixed reciprocating with a waste heat turbine for extra power. The Lusitania was older, having been built in l907. At the time the Cunard and White Star shipping companies were two separate firms- they later merged. Oh, yes the Lusitania incident occured in l9l5, not l9l7 ./ it did accelerate Us involvement in the War.
The ship sunk on the 28th was the Falaba.
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On March 24, 1916. The German submarine UB-29 torpedoed the French civilian passenger ferry SS Sussex in the English Channel.
The Lusitania was a victim of Germany's U-boats during their policy of unrestricted submarine warfare before WWI. The sinking of the Lusitania was a main reason why the United States entered into WWI.
It was recorded that the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by German submarine and sunk at 51°25′N 8°33′W just south of Ireland.
The Lusitania was torpedoed by the German submarine U20 on 7 May 1915. 1198 people, including 124 US citizens, died in the sinking.
It was the RMS Falaba, that went down with 104 people on 28 March, 1915. It was the first passenger ship sunk by torpedo during World War I.
The Lusitania
La Provence, renamed Provence II and used for troop transport in the Mediterranean until the ship was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-35.
there were several ships torpedoed in the channel, 1915 one was a ferry and the other one was the "Lusitania"
The Falaba
On March 24, 1916. The German submarine UB-29 torpedoed the French civilian passenger ferry SS Sussex in the English Channel.
No because the Lusitania is a passenger ocean liner should not been torpedoed by the German navy submarine.
Reuban James.
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Germany was afraid that America would go into war, and they were afraid of America.
The Lusitania was a victim of Germany's U-boats during their policy of unrestricted submarine warfare before WWI. The sinking of the Lusitania was a main reason why the United States entered into WWI.
the British passenger ship called the Lusitania was sunk by a German u-boat on May 7, 1915 a couple months after Germany warned that any ship venturing through the 'war zone' would be sunk. The ship contained approximately 1200 passengers and of that 1200 passengers 128 were Americans. The British steamship Falaba was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on March 28, 1915, the date specified in the question, and slightly earlier than the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7, 1915.