"Britain's worst ever maritime disaster" Topic
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| Tango01 | 25 Jul 2016 3:42 p.m. PST |
"Britain's worst ever maritime disaster, the 1940 sinking of the troopship Lancastria, which claimed the lives of between four and six thousand men, has all but been erased from history. But survivors and campaigners are keeping the memory alive. Most people have heard of the Titanic, the Transatlantic liner which sank on its maiden voyage in 1912 and was immortalised in James Cameron's blockbuster 1997 movie. And the Lusitania, torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1915, is still remembered as the ship which brought the United States into World War I. But have you heard of the Lancastria? Perhaps not. Because the sinking of this liner in 1940, an event which claimed the lives of more victims than the Titanic and the Lusitania combined, almost disappeared from history, a victim of the propaganda war which underlay Britain's fight against Nazi Germany…"
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| GonerGonerGoner | 26 Jul 2016 4:17 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 26 Jul 2016 10:27 a.m. PST |
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ScottWashburn  | 10 Aug 2016 10:56 a.m. PST |
The Lusitania is *incorrectly* remembered as the ship which brought the US into World War I. The Lusitania was sunk in 1915 and after considerable US outrage, the whole thing calmed down and the Germans promised to play nice with their U-Boats. It wasn't until early 1917 when Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare that the US declared war. The Lusitania was just one of many factors. |
| Ottoathome | 13 Aug 2016 7:45 p.m. PST |
The Washington Naval Treaty. |
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