One hundred years ago, on May 7, 1915, the Cunard luxury liner Lusitania was sunk by a German torpedo off the Irish coast. It was the fastest, most luxurious passenger ship ever to have sailed the seas and, like the Titanic, was believed to be invulnerable.

It was revealed that the Lusitania was carrying about 173 tons of war munitions for Britain, which the Germans cited as further justification for the attack. The United States eventually sent three notes to Berlin protesting the action, and Germany apologized and pledged to end unrestricted submarine warfare.

The British ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915. In May 1915 the Lusitania was returning from New York to Liverpool with 1,959 passengers and crew on board. Within 20 minutes the Lusitania had sunk, and 1,198 people were drowned.

The first expression of the German U-boat’s offensive power was the sinking of the Lusitania in May, 1915. The Germans had placed numerous newspaper ads warning Americans not to travel aboard the Lusitania, which was carrying munitions but masquerading as an ocean liner. Germany had gambled and lost.

The Lusitania sank in 18 minutes, taking nearly two thirds of the passengers and crew with her. Germany, however, claimed the sinking of the Lusitania was justified because it had been carried out according to the accepted international rules governing the taking of vessels on the seas during war, or the Cruiser Rules.

Of the 1,960 verified people on board Lusitania, 767 survived. Four survivors (marked with “*”) died of trauma related to the sinking shortly afterwards, reducing the number saved to 763.

Titanic was celebrated as the biggest, safest, most advanced ship of its age, but it was a lowly stoker in its boiler room who truly deserved the name ‘unsinkable’. John Priest survived no fewer than four ships that went to the bottom, including Titanic and its sister ship Britannic.

The last living survivor of the Titanic, Millvina Dean, has died at the age of 97 in Southampton after catching pneumonia. As a two-month-old baby, Dean was the youngest passenger on board the giant liner when it sank on its maiden voyage with the loss of more than 1,500 lives.

George Beauchamp is the sole person to escape with his life from the two worst maritime disasters of the 20th century, according to relatives. He survived the Titanic disaster in 1912 and the Lusitania in 1915 – then told his loved ones: ‘I have had enough of large ships – I’m going to work on smaller boats. ‘

107 #72: Third class passengers were kept below as Titanic sank and were prevented from entering the lifeboats. FALSE. It is a myth that Third Class passengers, including women and children, were locked below until the end.

No sharks did not eat Titanic passengers. The mangled bodies such as J.J.

53 children

Decades after the liner sank scientists conducted a DNA test on the remains of the baby in 2002. The original test identified the baby as Eino Panula by matching his DNA to that of living family members in Finland.

According to the U.S. committee investigating the sinking, 1,517 lives were lost, and its British counterpart determined that 1,503 died. The crew suffered the most casualties, with about 700 fatalities. Third class also suffered greatly, as only 174 of its approximately 710 passengers survived.

Astor

He was the richest passenger on-board the Titanic.

• SURVIVED: Archibald Gracie IV, historian and author.
• DIED: W.T. Stead, investigative journalist.
• SURVIVED: Noël Leslie, countess and philanthropist.
• DIED: Thomas Andrews, architect of the Titanic.
• SURVIVED: The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
• DIED: John Thayer, railroad executive.

Five days after the passenger ship the Titanic sank, the crew of the rescue ship Mackay-Bennett pulled the body of a fair-haired, roughly 2-year-old boy out of the Atlantic Ocean on April 21, 1912.

1,500 people

It turns out that raising the Titanic would be about as futile as rearranging the deck chairs on the doomed vessel. After several trips back to the drawing board, it turns out that raising the Titanic would be about as futile as rearranging the deck chairs on the doomed vessel.

Lookout Frederick Fleet

The reason why many more of these passengers died compared to the first- and second-class members was that the third-class passengers were confined to their area of the Titanic. Grilled gates had been installed in the lower decks to keep different classes of passengers from interacting with each other.

Around two-thirds of the bodies recovered after the sinking were transported to Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada for burial, whilst a third were buried at sea.

In less than three hours, 1,517 people died when the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage to New York. Most of the bodies were never recovered.

The first class tickets ranged enormously in price, from $150 (about $1700 today) for a simple berth, up to $4350 ($50,000) for one of the two Parlour suites. Second class tickets were $60 (around $700) and third class passengers paid between $15 and $40 ($170 – £460).

After the Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, hundreds of the survivors, families of victims, and owners of cargo filed claims against the White Star Line for loss of life, property, and for injuries sustained. Their claims totaled $16.4 million.

There were probably cats on the Titanic. Many vessels kept cats to keep mice and rats away. Apparently the ship even had an official cat, named Jenny. Neither Jenny, nor any of her feline friends, survived.

Titanic II is a planned passenger ocean liner intended to be a functional modern-day replica of the Olympic-class RMS Titanic. The new ship is planned to have a gross tonnage (GT) of 56,000, while the original ship measured about 46,000 gross register tons (GRT).

That means it likely broke off from Greenland in 1910 or 1911, and was gone forever by the end of 1912 or sometime in 1913. In all likelihood, the iceberg that sank the Titanic didn’t even endure to the outbreak of World War I, a lost splash of freshwater mixed in imperceptibly with the rest of the North Atlantic.

August 24, 2010 (USA)

Mann says it’s impossible to know exactly how long it will take for the ship to completely fall apart, but the observed damage can offer clues. Her best estimation is that there remain approximately 30 years until the wreck has disintegrated entirely.