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The Secrets of the Lusitania The American owner of the ill-fated Lusitania is planning to explore and hopefully salvage the liner, sunk off the south-west coast
The Secrets Of The Lusitania The American owner of the ill-fated Lusitania is planning to explore and hopefully salvage the liner, sunk off the south-west coast
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The American owner of the ill-fated Lusitania is planning to explore and
hopefully salvage the liner, sunk off the south-west coast of Ireland on May
7, 1915, killing 1,198 people.
"The Lusitania is probably the most important shipwreck that hasn't been
investigated in any detail so far," says Gregg Bemis. And although there are
striking similarities between the Lusitania and the Titanic, recently the
subject of a major movie, Bemis believes that the Lusitania is "a much more
interesting and historical story - and you don't have to make up any phoney
romance the way they did with the Titanic."
It is a story which involves US President Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill
and the still unanswered question of what the liner was carrying on board.
The Lusitania, pride of the Cunard line, was sailing from New York for the
port of Liverpool when a single torpedo from a German U-boat crashed into her
hull between the third and fourth funnels.
The ship sank in just under 20 minutes. Of those killed, 128 were American
citizens, and the incident influenced the eventual US decision to enter the
war two years later. It also provoked curiosity and mystery that naval
historians have argued over ever since. Was the Lusitania, as the Germans
claimed persistently, heavily loaded with
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weapons of war? If she was, who tipped Germany off? In addition, did she
carry priceless works of art in watertight containers, and what of the six
million dollars in gold bullion rumored to have been taken aboard but which
was not on the manifest? Following the
discharge of the fatal torpedo, there was a second blast deep inside the ship
a few minutes later - could this have been a secret cargo of explosives? What
is certain is that since the fatal day of May 7, 1915, the wreck of...
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