It was an enemy ship and it was carrying munitions. When it was hit by a torpedo, some of those munitions are thought to have exploded causing more damage and hastening the sinking of the ship.
Off the coast of Southern Ireland
Ireland
The German torpedo sank the ship off of the southern coast of Ireland in May, 1915.
It was about 11 miles or 18 kilometres off the south coast of Ireland.
On the 7th of May 1915.
The Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.
Justus Miles Forman died on May 7, 1915, in off the southern coast of Ireland of drowned in the Lusitania sinking.
The act that happened on May 7, 1915, was the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. The British ocean liner was torpedoed by Germany off the coast of Ireland.
The RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland, specifically near the Old Head of Kinsale. The attack occurred on May 7, 1915, during World War I, resulting in the loss of 1,198 lives. The sinking played a significant role in shifting public opinion against Germany and contributed to the United States' eventual entry into the war.
The RMS Lusitania sank in the Mid-Atlantic ocean off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915 from being struck by a torpedo by a German U-boat.
Many boats, ships and aircraft have sank off the coast of Ireland. The most famous, and the one you are probably referring to, is the ship known as the Lusitania which sank on the 7th of May, 1915.
It started in the USA,sailed from New York,sank off the coast of Ireland