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[[Image:Lusitania.jpg|right|thumb|Poster about the Lusitania]]

[[Image:Lusitania.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Poster about the Lusitania]]

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[[Image:NYT01May1915.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Advertisement and shipping news page for the ''New York Times'', 01 May 1915, detailing the schedules of the various ocean liners and other ships due to sail.  Below and to the right of the Cunard Line's notice of the departure dates for RMS ''Lusitania'' is the notice from the Imperial German Embassy in Washington, D.C. stating that all such vessels departing for Great Britain would enter a war zone at their own risk.  Six days after this paper was printed, ''Lusitania'' was torpedoed and sunk off Ireland.]]

On May 7, 1915, still relatively early in World War I, a German [[U-boat]] sunk a massive [[British]] passenger liner known as the '''RMS Lusitania''' off the coast of [[Ireland]].  This one sinking killed 1,198 people, including 128 U.S. citizens.  A member of the prominent Vanderbilt family, known for its railroad empire, was among the fatalities.  The overall number of casualties was only a few hundred less than those who died on the [[Titanic]] when it hit an iceberg in 1912.

On May 7, 1915, still relatively early in World War I, a German [[U-boat]] sunk a massive [[British]] passenger liner known as the '''RMS Lusitania''' off the coast of [[Ireland]].  This one sinking killed 1,198 people, including 128 U.S. citizens.  A member of the prominent Vanderbilt family, known for its railroad empire, was among the fatalities.  The overall number of casualties was only a few hundred less than those who died on the [[Titanic]] when it hit an iceberg in 1912.