Before the days of transatlantic air travel, ocean liners like the Lusitania were the only means of crossing the Atlantic. On May 1, 1915, the Lusitania had left port in New York for Liverpool to make her 202nd trip across the … The Lusitania gets dwarfed by recollections of the Titanic. Turner was the captain of the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner famous for its luxurious accommodations and speed capability.The Lusitania was primarily used to ferry people and goods across the Atlantic Ocean between the United States and Great Britain. What happened? First-class passengers fared the best on the Titanic but the worst—even worse than third-class passengers—on the Lusitania. On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania sinks off the coast of Ireland. On May 1, 1915, the RMS Lusitania set sail from New York City to Liverpool, England, carrying 1,959 passengers.On May 7, 1915, the ship was sailing off the Irish coast when a German U-Boat, U-20, fired a torpedo that sank the Lusitania within twenty minutes, killing 1,198 passengers, including 128 Americans. But in many ways, the destruction of the Cunard Line’s premier ocean liner on May 7, 1915, was a deeper tragedy than that of the White Star liner. Cunard's original four funneled beauties, RMS Lusitania and RMS Mauretania dominated the ocean in the early twentieth century and set the stage for all liners that followed.Their introduction would conjure the most famous liner of all time, Titanic, and her older sister Olympic.Where Lusitania would join Titanic in the history books as one of the great … A century ago, the Lusitania was the greatest, fastest, most luxurious liner afloat. This is the astounding tale of one Irish grandmother who was a passenger on the ill-fated ship and how she escaped. The Lusitania Departs Despite the German warning, the Lusitania departed from New York on May 1, 1915 on its way to Liverpool, England. Four survivors (marked with “*”) died of trauma related to the sinking shortly afterwards, reducing the number saved to 763… The Lusitania was a passenger vessel that sailed from Great Britain to the United States, carrying people who were on holiday, business trips, visiting family or even immigrating … Of the 1,960 verified people on board Lusitania, 767 survived. When a German submarine torpedoed the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915, the world was stunned. As a casualty of war — sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of southern Ireland — … The decision to send "Lusitania" on her voyage was so provocative that one wonders if some purpose lay behind the sacrifice - to bring the United States into the war maybe. The German Embassy even took out an advertisement in many of the US papers warning people that the ship may be … The … You have to think of the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor in order to understand the impact.