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<\/a>300 fewer than on the Titanic, and the Lusitania \u2014 while smaller, older and faster than the Titanic \u2014 was the first of the “floating palaces” yet never had the same celebrity cache. And the Lusitania didn’t hit an iceberg\u2026it was hit by a torpedo. Many believe her demise at the guns of a German U-boat was part of the reason the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, three years after it began.<\/p>\nThis all happened 100 years ago next May, and Cunard<\/a> will memorialize the event with a cruise from Southampton<\/a> (return) that will pass where the Lusitania lies, 11 miles off the coast of Ireland. It’s called Lusitania Remembered<\/i>, and passengers on the Queen Victoria<\/a> will be able to attend a special ceremony on shore in Cobh, Ireland and commemorative dinner that night (May 7) on the ship<\/p>\n One of the passengers will be Eric Sauder.<\/p>\n He is an historian who was commissioned by Cunard to create a temporary exhibition of Lusitania artifacts and memorabilia. A former tour guide on the old Queen Mary in Long Beach<\/a>, he has written two books on the Lusitania and has dived to the sunken Today at\u00a0portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m:\u00a0Great prices for the Caribbean<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Carnival Victory For those of us who enjoy being on ocean liners, there’s nothing like an old story about a ship\u2026or 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<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[137,154,1118,912,72,819,86,35,150,1684,26,27,1685,321,184],"class_list":["post-21471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-victory","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-cunard","tag-lusitania","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-ships-that-sank","tag-theme-cruises","tag-titanic","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>ship. If nothing else, he’ll be fascinating. The Queen Victoria embarks on her historic journey on May 3. Among ship aficionados and story tellers, only the superstitious wouldn’t want to be on her when she leaves Southampton.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>5 nights
\nOctober 27, 2014
\nMiami<\/a> (return): Grand Turk<\/a>, Half Moon Cay<\/a>, Nassau
\n<\/a>Inside: $219
\nCost per day: $43
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