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WW1 Naval Warfare
WW1 naval warfare was characterized by the efforts of the Allied Powers to blockade the Central Powers by sea using the advantage of having larger fleets and better position. To break the blockade, the Central Powers utilized submarines and raiders.
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Who was the greatest naval hero of World War 1?
Probably German Admiral Scheer because he managed to leave the field at Jutland without letting the British fight him at all.
What is a sentence for lusitania?
The Lusitania was a British ship which was sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915
How do you get traumatized from the war?
They see very violent and gruesome things take place where they are, such as killings, and they just go crazy by even the images and thoughts in their head.
Why did the US blame world war 1 on the kaiser?
The US didn't, the Entente had blamed Kaiser Wilhelm II for the Great War.
Which was more important as a reason for Great Britain joining World War I?
The more important reason for Britain joining World War 1 was the Schlieffen Plan, that Germany had written up. The plan involved Germany attacking on two fronts; Russia and France. Almost immediately this would of set sparks off within the Triple Entente; Great Britain, Russia and France.
The biggest fault of the plan was that Germany would have to go through Belgium to attack France. In 1839, Britain signed a treaty with France stating that they would help Belgium, who were neutral, if they were ever invaded. With Germany wanting to pass through Belgium, Britain were forced to declare war on Germany, something which the Germans had not expected at all.
If Britain had left it, essentially Germany would of invaded both France and Belgium, and then would of been able to invade Britain from the South. Germany could of won World War One if Great Britain didn't attack.
During WW1, German U-boats (submarines) used torpedoes to sink boats and ships belonging to the Allies or any vessel aiding the Allies war cause.
What was the nickname for Lusitania?
Her nickname was Lusi, or Lucy, a shortened version of her name.
What was the British blockade and what was the result for the German people?
During World War II, the 'British blockade' was the effort on the part of British (and other Allied) naval forces to prevent Nazi Germany from engaging in profitable (or any) commercial interactions with other nations. While some privations were experienced in Germany on various scales, the blockade was not as significant as it had been in World War I, especially given Germany's success on the continent early in the war.
A British Merchant ship topedoed on March 28th 1915 slightly over 100 southeast of the Old Headof Kinsale in th Irish Channel by U-28. Mike Fowler
The Lusitania sank on May 7, 1915. At about 2:10 p.m., a torpedo from a German U-boat struck amidships, and about 18 minutes later, the Lusitania went down with great loss of life. A link can be found below.
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May 7, 1915
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Did the RMS Brittanic get hit by a torpedo?
RMS Britannic was sunk on the morning of 21 November 1916 off the Greek island of Kea by a single mine. The ship took 55 minutes to sink and 30 lives were lost from the 1,066 people on board.
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How many people were on Britannica when it sank?
When the HMS Britannica was sunk 1,036 were saved, 30 killed. So that makes 1066 aboard.
No, the Lusitania is a famous passenger ship that should been targeted by the submarine. It's not the greatest idea to sink the Lusitania.
Why did the lusitania sink so quickly?
While the blame for the sinking of the RMS Lusitania sits squarely on the shoulders of Germany during the First World War and U-20 Kapitan Walter Schweiger, the cause of the rapid sinking has always been debated. Schweiger, intercepted German communications at the time of the sinking and even the British Admiralty concede only one torpedo was fired. Under most circumstances, a ship of 32,500 tonnes would be significantly damaged with one torpedo, but either survive to limp back to port or sink rather slowly. Indeed, the Lusitania was carrying some ammunitions and magazine rounds, but the cargo hold in which they were stored was found to be intact by maritime explorer Robert Ballard and others. The second explosion that most survivors heard was hypothesised to be either the ammunition, a coal dust explosion or a boiler or steamline explosion, the lattermost of which is the most likely candidate. However, even with a steam explosion, the ship would not necessarily have been damaged further by this.
Historians, explorers and authors all seem to ignore the biggest smoking guns of all. Why did the RMS Lusitania sink so quickly? First, we need to look at four things, three of which were salvaged from the ship in 1982 - her four propellors and the great speed at which they drove Lusitania. The Lusitania and her sister ship, RMS Mauretania, were the two fastest ships on the Atlantic since 1907. In fact, Mauretania held the Blue Riband speed record for the fastest North Atlantic crossing from 1907 to 1929 - an unprecedented span of time. Lusitania was only a hair shy of that record and even held it for the first two years sporadically. While Boiler Room 4 had been shut down to conserve coal, Lusitania was still travelling at 18 knots when she was hit. Why does this matter? Contrary to Kapitan Schwieger's log indicating the "ship stops immediately and heels to starboard," she didn't stop. The torpedo damaged the steamlines controlling the propellors and Captain Turner was unable to stop the ship or turn the ship's rudder to try and beach her on the nearby Irish coast. Her speed was forcing water into the hull. For her height and size, Lusitania had a very deep draught. With her turbines unable to be shut down, the ship, with the giant hole opened by the torpedo, was acting like a giant scoop and forcing water into the hull, possibly causing the bulkheads to fail and collapse. Open portholes would not have helped the matter. In fact, the lifeboats could not be lowered for the first 10 minutes of the ship sinking, as they would have flipped on launch upon hitting the water. This left less than eight minutes to launch 48 lifeboats, with a man on each side at the davits controlling the falls, standing precariously on a deck pitching forward and downward, listing to starboard beyond 15 degrees, and palpably sinking in jerking motions. This contributed to crewmen losing their grip and many of the lifeboats capsizing on launch on the starboard side or crashing against deckhouses on the port side. In fact, only six lifeboats stayed afloat.
Secondly, the torpedo also happened to hit at a weak spot in the ship - where the longitudinal bulkheads could not be curved with the narrowing taper of the bow, but rather "stepped in," as indicated in the remarkable book by J. Kent Layton, "Lusitania: Ship of Splendour." Hitting at this spot was where a number of bulkhead met, thereby meaning that more than two compartments were ruptured. Combine this with the speed and the inability to stop the ship, and you have the disastrous outcome that took place.
As an interesting final note, Cunard's RMS Aquitania, built in 1914 as a larger running mate and near-sister ship to Lusitania and Mauretania, John Brown on the Clyde designed her to withstand flooding with all six of her longitudinal bulkheads ruptured, resulting in a list of 23 degrees with still positive metacentric height. However, with Lusitania and Mauretania, if three side compartments flooded, the list would exceed 22 degrees and their metacentric height would become negative, meaning that the ships were in danger of capsizing.
Lusitania's continuing propulsion in the water after the torpedoing and the inability to stop the ships powerful turbines forced water into the giant hole at a phenomenal rate that may not have been as rapid had she been stopped. Combined with the torpedo strike occurring at perhaps the most vulnerable part of the ship and the design structure of the bulkheads, these were the main contributing factors in her rapid sinking, after having ruled out a second torpedo strike, a coal dust explosion, additional damage from the steam explosion, or the detonation of ammunition aboard.
The Lusitania sunk quickly because of where she was hit by the torpedo. The captain of U-20 (the U-boat that sunk Lusitania said "Torpedo hits starboard side right behind the bridge. An unusually heavy detonation takes place with a very strong explosive cloud. The explosion of the torpedo must have been followed by a second one [boiler or coal or powder?]... The ship stops immediately and heels over to starboard very quickly, immersing simultaneously at the bow"
Another reason she sank so fast was the way her watertight bulkheads were designed. Like most other ships she had transverse bulkheads but Lusitania also had longitudinal bulkheads running from the back to the front. This meant that when she was torpedoed only one side filled with water so it listed very quickly.
How do you build a model of the ship Lusitania?
You just picked the second most common civilian ocean liner in the world; after the Titanic. Any and all hobby stores, as well as on line, will carry a plastic model kit of either the Lusitiana or the Titanic...if you want to "scratch build one" Taubman's Plans" carries the drawings (plans) to build them too.
Did First World War Widows receive monetary payment?
Source: Department of Veterans Affairs "If their spouse had retired with benefits, they would continue to receive the ability to access military health care and shop on military bases, as well as receive some portion of their spouses' retirement pay. " * In June 2002 the Dept. of Veterans Affairs estimated about 14 surivors left in the USA. May do more some more research but this is "augmentation" of other current research.
Why was Kaiser Wilhelm II born with an infected arm?
Kaiser Wilhelm's arm was not infected, it was deformed. His left arm was smaller than the right with nerve damage that made it useless for many normal activities. The most widespread belief is that this resulted from complications at birth. During delivery, the survival of the infant and mother were both endangered by the position of the infant Wilhelm. One of the physicians attending the birth used a forceps to pull the infant out of the birth canal by the arm, apparently causing the damage. A few have speculated that the damage may in fact have been caused by a fall that his mother took during the fourth month of her pregnancy. In any event, the withered arm was a major issue in Wilhelm's life.
What new technology did America use in World War 1?
well, the first use of the tank was used by Americans, whereas they had lees than 100 tanks
ww1 was the first time American soldiers were given an IQ test
the first x-rays were used and the first blod bank was established!
there's a lot more, this video should help you
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What Mexican port city did the US naval forces seize?
US Marines temporarily occupied the Mexican port of Veracruz in April 1914. This occupation was in response to the "Tampico Incident", when the Mexicans interned US Navy personnel at Tampico.
