Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
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title:
Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
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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 off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. The attack took place in the declared maritime war-zone around the UK, three months after unrestricted submarine warfare against the ships of the United Kingdom had been announced by Germany following the Allied powers' implementation of a naval blockade against it and the other Central
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World War I maritime disaster
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_RMS_Lusitania
date created:
2012-05-02T10:44:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T13:05:49Z
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