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| Tango01 | 14 Sep 2016 11:40 a.m. PST |
… Liner's Terrifying Final Minutes. "ON MAY 7, 1915, the German U-boat U-20 fired a torpedo into the side of the passenger liner RMS Lusitania as it passed 11 miles to the south of the Old Head of Kinsale in Ireland en route to Liverpool, England from New York. Of the 1,962 passengers and crew, 1,191 lost their lives, many of them women and children. One of the passengers was Charles E. Lauriat, Jr., a 40-year-old rare book dealer from Boston who traveled regularly to London for business. When the German embassy placed a warning notice in several U.S. newspapers warning travellers that any ships of Great Britain and her allies would be considered fair targets, Lauriat, like many others, dismissed the notion that a civilian vessel would actually be attacked…"
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