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On the afternoon of May 7, the Lusitaniawas torpedoed by a German U-Boat, 11 miles off the southern coast of Ireland and inside the declared "zone of war". A second internal explosion sent her to the bottom in 18 minutes, claiming the lives of 1198 people.

On 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,502 people

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