The ocean liner's sinking by a German U-boat led to the U.S. entering World War I. Erik Larson, author of Dead Wake, says British intelligence... The Lusitania Mystery: Why British Codebreakers Didn't ...

On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland and nearly 1,200 lives were lost. Library of Congress via WikiCommons When the First World War began, in the ...

The Lusitania and the RMS Titanic are two of the most majestic vessels the British have ever produced. Both tragically sank, causing enormous loss of life. What's particularly notable about the two ...

Around lunchtime on Friday, May 7, 1915, the ocean liner RMS Lusitania - the fastest passenger ship in the world - was slicing her way through the Celtic Sea just 11 miles off the coast of Ireland.

One hundred years ago, 128 Americans died among more than a thousand in the sinking of what was then the greatest ocean liner in the world. In response, the U.S. entered World War I. That's the story ...