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.
The Lusitania
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.
RMS Lusitania
Lusitania
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.
There wasn't anything it could do. It was a British ship torpedoed by a German submarine and those two countries were at war.