![]() ![]() ![]() The fact that 123 Americans died in this act of war threatened to force the United States' entry into World War I (then in its 10th month) against Germany.Įrik Larson, bestselling author of In the Garden of Beasts (2011), Thunderstruck (2006), The Devil in the White City (2003) and several other works, thrillingly chronicles the liner's last voyage in Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. The Lusitania, weighing more than 44,000 tons and one of the grandest of luxury liners, sank in approximately 25 minutes with a loss of 1,198 lives out of a total of 1,959 aboard. ![]() On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st round-trip crossing from New York to Liverpool, England, the British Cunard liner Lusitania was struck by a torpedo fired from a German submarine about 12 miles off the southern coast of Ireland. ![]()
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