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[[Image:Lusitania.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Poster about the Lusitania]]
{{Ship
| name=R.M.S. ''Lusitania''
| image=070729221526 RMS Lusitania LG.jpg
| flag=[[Image:UK Civil Ensign.png|22pxx20px]] Merchant Navy (UK)
| port=[[Liverpool]], [[England]]
| owner=Cunard
| built=John Brown & Co. Ltd, Clydebank, Scotland
| launched=June 7, 1906
| retired=
| status=Sunk, May 7, 1915
| type=Ocean liner
| displ=44,060 long tons
| length=787 ft.
| beam=87 ft 6 in
| draft=
| speed=cruising:25 knots <br>max:26.7 knots
| test=
| armament=
| crew=850
| pass=2,198 total <br>First-class: 552<br>Second-class: 460<br>Third-class: 1,186
|}}
[[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.]]
[[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.
The sinking of the Lusitania was extensively used in British [[propaganda]] to promote recruitment for the armed forces in the war against Germany, and to promote anti-German sentiment in the still-neutral United States.
The sinking of the Lusitania was extensively used in British [[propaganda]] to promote recruitment for the armed forces in the war against Germany, and to promote anti-German sentiment in the still-neutral United States.
[[Image:Lusitania.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Poster about the Lusitania]]
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