CHICAGO (WLS) -- On May 7, it will be exactly 100 years since the sinking of the luxury steamship Lusitania by a German submarine. A new best-selling novel is exploring the question: Did it have to ...
In January 1910, five years before her infamous sinking, the RMS Lusitania was nearly destroyed by a massive North Atlantic ...
The Lusitania and the RMS Titanic are two of the most majestic vessels the British have ever produced. Both tragically sank, causing enormous loss of life. What's particularly notable about the two ...
At about 2 p.m. on May 7, 1915, Theodate Pope of Farmington, and her companion, Harvard man, Edwin Friend, were strolling along the promenade deck of the ocean liner R.M.S. Lusitania on the starboard ...
The legends of lost ships call to us like siren songs. We never tire of the Titanic's re-telling, and as we near the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania -- on May 7 -- there are two new ...
One hundred years ago, 128 Americans died among more than a thousand in the sinking of what was then the greatest ocean liner in the world. In response, the U.S. entered World War I. That's the story ...
The RMS Lusitania - sunk during the First World War - has been recreated in 3D alongside hundreds of other vessels submerged in Ireland’s territorial waters. Coastal waters around the island are being ...
The Lusitania sailed regularly between Liverpool (above) and New York from 1907 to 1915 Some 1,200 people died when the ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat in World War One. A centenary ...