Today is the day to remember the Lusitania. Lusitania? If there hadn’t been a Titanic, you’d know all about the Lusitania. It sank 100 years ago today, courtesy of a torpedo, and if the Titanic had missed that iceberg three years earlier, Lusitania would have been the word by which all cruise-ship disasters at sea… Continue reading Lest We Forget The Lusitania
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A Sunken Cunard Ship not called Titanic
For those of us who enjoy being on ocean liners, there’s nothing like an old story about a ship…or a new story about an old ship. Today’s topic: Cunard’s Lusitania. In the realm of ship tragedies, this is something of a forgotten example. For one thing, the Titanic sank first (1914) and anything that’s first… Continue reading A Sunken Cunard Ship not called Titanic