The Lost Cunarder

Photograph of the Lusitania, a floating palace, torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915 with the loss of 1200 lives. As well as carrying a large cargo of munitions, the passengers included 100 neutral Americans. The incident was to play a part in bringing the United States into World War I

1200 Bringing Cunarder Incident Loss Lusitania Munitions Neutral Sunk Torpedoed

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