THE LUSITANIA: 1,198 DEAD, 4 MILLION ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION, AND DECADES OF DENIAL
Episode 136 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on May 7th, 1915 — the British ocean liner torpedoed by a German U-boat off the Irish coast with 1,198 people aboard, including 4.2 million rounds of rifle ammunition and 1,250 cases of shrapnel shells that Britain denied carrying for decades.
This episode covers what unrestricted submarine warfare was and why Germany declared it, how the Lusitania sank in 18 minutes compared to the Titanic's two hours forty minutes, the second explosion that has never been definitively explained, and the 1982…
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