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The Lusitania

Off the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork

A torpedoed liner whose sinking helped bring America into the war.

On 7 May 1915 the liner Lusitania, sailing from New York to Liverpool, was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the Irish coast. She sank in 18 minutes, and 1,198 people died, including 128 Americans.

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When
7 May 1915
Where
51.4100, -8.5500
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

The Lusitania Museum and Signal Tower stands on the Old Head of Kinsale.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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