HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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U.S.S. Maine
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Lusitania
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U.S.S. Admiral
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the Titanic
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Detailed explanation-1: -On May 7, 1915, the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England.
Detailed explanation-2: -The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles (20 kilometres) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland.
Detailed explanation-3: -On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. Of 1, 959 passengers and crew, 1, 198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans.
Detailed explanation-4: -On May 7, 1915, the German U-20 sank the passenger liner RMS Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, horrifically killing 1, 198 passengers, including 128 Americans.
Detailed explanation-5: -While in the North Atlantic, off New London, Connecticut, German (Type IXC) U-boat, U-853, was sunk by Hedgehog depth charges from USS Atherton (DE-69) and USS Moberly (PF-63).