On 7 May 1915, the British ocean liner, the Lusitania, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast, as it sailed from New York to Liverpool. Thousands of passengers were onboard and 1,200 ...

One of the most important incidents of World War I took place on May 7, 1915, when the British ocean liner, RMS Lusitania, ...

Ocean liner SS Schiller sank close to the Isles of Scilly on the night of 7 May 1875, with the loss of more than 300 lives ...

To avoid being torpedoed by German U-boats, she languished here until America entered the war in 1941 and the US Navy seized the ocean liner to be converted into a troopship for 15,000 soldiers ...