The sinking occurred about two years before the United States declaration of war on Germany.Although the Lusitania sinking was a major factor in building … On 1 May 1915 the RMS Lusitania left from New York for … On May 1, 1915, the RMS Lusitania set sail from New York City to Liverpool, England, carrying 1,959 passengers.On May 7, 1915, the ship was sailing off the Irish coast when a German U-Boat, U-20, fired a torpedo that sank the Lusitania within twenty minutes, killing 1,198 passengers, including 128 Americans. I first heard this story many years … My Dad served under him at the Cunnard Engine Works during his electrical apprenticeship between 1918-1923 … The RMS Lusitania had recently departed New York when it was fatally torpedoed by a German U-boat. The Lusitania was a passenger vessel that sailed from Great Britain to the United States, carrying people who were on holiday, … The sinking of the Lusitania, with many Americans on board, provided such a disaster. On Friday, April 30th, 1915, a German U-boat left a naval base in the North Sea. John ‘Jack’ FitzGerald was an Electrician on the RMS LUSITANIA – he survived the sinking, and supposedly helped save two children in the sinking, and may have been awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Award. The submarine traveled around Scotland, then down to Ireland. With Peter Barkworth, Jack May, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Palmer. History records that Kapt Walter Schwieger commanded the U Boat that sank her as she neared the Irish coast but as Voltaire said; “history is a lie commonly agreed on” and the sinking of the Lusitania is a prime example. Over 100 U.S. citizens were lost with on the Lusitania, which served as the basis for much Allied propaganda. Just three years following the sinking of the Titanic, there was another tragedy in the Atlantic: the 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania… He would become known to the whole world as the man who sank the liner Lusitania on 7 May 1915 or by the nickname the British gave him, “The Baby Killer”. Saloon (1st Class) Passengers 290 RMS Lusitania 1st class passengers, 113 survived, 177 died. Unknown to the passengers on board, however, were 173 tons of weaponry bound for war. RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew. When a German submarine torpedoed the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915, the world was stunned. Selected RMS Lusitania passengers have individual biographies.. Lusitania Passenger List, Crossing 202. Introduction: In this blog article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to find some stirring accounts of heroism during the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania in 1915.Gena is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen. You have to think of the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor in order to understand the impact. On May 1st, 1915 the Lusitania left New York on its last fateful voyage. All 1st class passengers have individual biographies. A century ago, the Lusitania was the greatest, fastest, most luxurious liner afloat. 1 May 1915, New York to Liverpool. The man who sank the Lusitania – Walther von Schwieger.