After Lusitania sank in 1915, it carried not only passengers but also valuable cargo to the bottom of the ocean. Decades later, divers began exploring the wreck, searching for lost items and ...

RMS Lusitania was one of the fastest ocean liners ever built, but at speed she shook so violently that half the ship became ...

It was a maritime disaster almost as deadly as the Titanic. It saw innocent civilians become collateral damage. And it swayed the public opinion of a neutral nation at a time of war, just like the ...

The legends of lost ships call to us like siren songs. We never tire of the Titanic's re-telling, and as we near the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania -- on May 7 -- there are two new ...

THE wreck of the Lusitania, which sank off Cork over a century ago with the loss of 1,198 lives, has been gifted to an Irish museum by its American owner. US businessman Greg Bemis signed over the ...

(CBS)-- 100 years ago this Thursday, the Lusitania was hit with a German torpedo and sank - killing almost 1,200. More than 760 survived, including some with ties to Chicago and the Midwest, as WBBM's ...

One hundred years ago, 128 Americans died among more than a thousand in the sinking of what was then the greatest ocean liner in the world. In response, the U.S. entered World War I. That's the story ...

Some 1,200 people died when the ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat in World War One. A centenary since its loss, a new exhibition is remembering the massacre, which is often seen as ...