On May 1, 1915, the RMS Lusitania sailed from New York, bound for Liverpool. On May 7, it was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Old Head of Kinsale on the southern Irish coast. The ship’s ...

The century-old mystery of the Lusitania 08:12. ... Boat captain Carroll O'Donoghue feels its presence. "You remember the tragedy of it all, really," O'Donoghue said.

On Walther Schwieger, the captain of the German submarine — the U-20 — that sank the Lusitania. I found [him] to be such an interesting character, and frankly I wouldn't be surprised if ...

Two key things went wrong that caused so many lives to be lost. Don't make these mistakes in your business, writes former U.S. Navy captain and retired Turner Broadcasting exec Alec Fraser.

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 starboa… ...

This is the story of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania and how it lit the path to war for the United States of America. More for You. At least 24 are dead, and girls are missing from a camp, ...

So, here was this captain of the old school forced suddenly to confront this horrendous situation of submarines hunting his ship. The villain of the story is a German U-boat captain, Walter Schwieger.

We follow the cat-and-mouse game between Lusitania captain William Thomas Turner and U-20 commander Walther Schwieger, who launches the fatal torpedo.

The RMS Lusitania sank on this day, May 7, 1915, off the coast of Co Cork. ... just one week before the Lusitania was torpedoed, Captain Turner had been called to the New York law offices of Hunt, ...

The ocean liner's sinking by a German U-boat led to the U.S. entering World War I. Erik Larson, author of Dead Wake, says British intelligence knew the ship was in danger and didn't tell anyone.