The development of the automotive torpedo during World War I helped submarines to become more efficient by allowing them to ...

On a dark December night in 1906, the world’s first cruise ship ran aground in Jamaica—and in the wake of the crash, the ...

The current condition of the RMS Lusitania on the seafloor, 100 years after its sinking on 7 May 1915, is revealed in greater detail than ever before. The imagery provides a sense of the scale and ...

Lusitania and her sister-ship Mauretania were originally fitted with three-bladed propellers. In 1908 Mauretania had a new set of four-bladed propellers fitted, which immediately improved her speed.

The ocean liner was travelling from New York to Liverpool ... Con Hayes, who is the secretary of the Lusitania Museum, told BBC News NI how he became aware that the davit had made a 260-mile ...

The Lusitania, targeted by a German U-Boat, was hit with one small torpedo, which caused an explosion on board. Most survivors agree that a second, more massive explosion that caused the ship to ...

Bulletin -- Lusitania torpedoed and sunk off Irish coast LIVERPOOL, May 7, 1915 (UP) - The Cunard liner Lusitania with a heavy passenger list of Americans, was torpedoed and sunk off the Irish ...

Bulletin -- Lusitania torpedoed and sunk off Irish coast LIVERPOOL, May 7, 1915 (UP) - The Cunard liner Lusitania with a heavy passenger list of Americans, was torpedoed and sunk off the Irish ...

RMS Lusitania was a Cunard transatlantic liner built on the Clyde,Scotland.She was 787ft long,87ft wide and weighed 31,550 tons. Her maiden vogage between Liverpool and New York was on 7 Sep 1907 ...