Lusitania

__About the Lusitania__


 * She was the first ship to exceed 30,000 tons.
 * Her maiden (first) voyage from Liverpool to New York was on September 7th, 1907.
 * She burned 1,000 pounds of coal a day.
 * At that time she was the worlds largest ship.
 * Two months later the Lusitania's sister was built named Mauretania. She was then the worlds largest ship.
 * During WWI the Lusitania made monthly sailings between Liverpool and New York.
 * On May 7th, 1915 she was torpedoed by a German U-boat (U-20) without a warning. It sank within 18 minutes.
 * 761 people were rescued and 1,198 people died.

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