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RMS Lusitania: John Brown & Company, SM U-20, H. Montagu Allan, Oliver Percy Bernard, Ogden H. Hammond, Theodate Pope Riddle, Pier 54

RMS Lusitania: John Brown & Company, SM U-20, H. Montagu Allan, Oliver Percy Bernard, Ogden H. Hammond, Theodate Pope Riddle, Pier 54


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: John Brown & Company, SM U-20, H. Montagu Allan, Oliver Percy Bernard, Ogden H. Hammond, Theodate Pope Riddle, Pier 54, Barbara McDermott, Walther Schwieger, Audrey Lawson-Johnston, The Sinking of the Lusitania, Arabic pledge. Excerpt: RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland. The ship entered passenger service with the Cunard Line on 26 August 1907. The ship was named after the ancient Roman province of Lusitania, which is part of present day Portugal. During the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against Britain, the ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 on 7 May 1915 and sank in eighteen minutes. The vessel went down eleven miles (19 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard, leaving 761 survivors. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, contributed to the American entry into World War I and became an iconic symbol in military recruiting campaigns of why the war was being fought. Lusitania was constructed as part of the competition between the Cunard Line and other shipping lines, principally from Germany, for the trans-Atlantic passenger trade. Whichever company had the fastest and most luxurious ships had a commercial advantage: Lusitania and her sister Mauretania together provided a regular express service between Britain and the United States until the intervention of the First World War. The two ships both held the Blue Riband speed record for a transatlantic crossing at different times in their careers. Mauretania was generally the slightly faster of the two and continued to hold the record after the war until 1929. The Cunard board had decided to use Parsons' turbine propulsion, which accounted for their 22-year re...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156577042
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 82 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156577047
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jul 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: John Brown & Company, SM U-20, H. Montagu Allan, Oliver Percy Bernard, Ogden H. Hammond, Theodate Pope Riddle, Pier 54
  • Width: 189 mm


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