RMS Lusitania was one of the fastest and most luxurious passenger liners in the world, but World War I turned the Atlantic into a danger zone. Germany had warned that ships sailing near the British ...

When the passenger ship Lusitania was hit by a torpedo, followed by a second explosion, chaos ensued. Hundreds of passengers rushed toward lifeboats. Some didn’t. Millionaire and sportsman Alfred ...

At 2:10 p.m. on May 7, 1915, Capt. William Turner guided the Lusitania off the south coast of Ireland, en route to Liverpool from New York. The Lusitania’s passengers were finishing lunch. Capt.

On the night of May 6, 1915, as his ship ap­proached the coast of Ireland, Capt. William Thomas Turner left the bridge and made his way to the first-class lounge, where passengers were taking part in ...

"Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the ...

In 1945: Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, ending its role in World War II. In 2014: The Nation's Report Card said America's high school seniors ...