Cobh will host a solemn and dignified tribute this May as the annual Lusitania Commemoration Ceremony takes place on Sunday, May 11, marking 110 years since the tragic sinking of the RMS Lusitania off ...

May 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1718, the French established the city of New Orleans on land inhabited by the Chitimacha tribe. The actual date of the city's founding is unknown, but the ...

On May 7, 1915, the Germany submarine (U-boat) U-20 sank the British ocean liner Lusitania. Approximately 1200 civilians died; more than 100 were U.S. citizens. In reply to President Woodrow Wilson’s ...

One hundred years ago on May 7, 1915, the giant British luxury passenger ship Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine U-20 and sunk as it approached England. Aboard 1,198 of 1,959 passengers and ...

Lusitania’s four propellers created rhythmic pressure shocks that could line up with the hull’s natural resonant frequency, turning the bow and stern into uninhabitable vibration zones at speed. We ...

Owning a fragment of history — a Gettysburg bullet, a Coolidge campaign button — is fun, so in 1968 Gregg Bemis became an owner of the Lusitania. This 787-feet-long passenger liner has been beneath ...

The paper from 100 years ago offers an interesting look at how breaking news develops. In the Early Sport edition, the headline carried news of the Lusitania's sinking in large, dramatic type across ...