The Sinking of the Lusitania

*Includes pictures *Includes passengers’ and crew members’ accounts of the attack and sinking *Discusses the debates over whether the Lusitania was smuggling weapons *Includes a bibliography for further reading

In 1906, the RMS Lusitania was at the forefront of transatlantic shipping. Briefly the largest ship in the world, the designers and engineers who built the Lusitania aimed for her to represent the height of luxury for passengers while also being the harbinger of a new technolog…