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Lusitania

            
             The Lusitania was designed by Leonard Peskett.
             Lusitania was designed with lots of rooms, and dining rooms which one was for the rich peolpe and there was another dining room for the poor.
             The Lusitania was divided into two sections which are the front and the stern.The front was done before the stern had started.So this allowed the designers to arrange their machinery in the engine rooms.In the end of spring of 1905,the Lusitania's double bottom was placed in.The work stilled continued in the stern of the ship.
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             As a Naval Rescue Ship, the Lusitania would have to be quick as well as elegant.The ship had carried 16 wooden lifeboats.After what had happened to the Titanic ship, Lusitania had carried 48 lifeboats, 22 were wooden and 26 were collapsible.Every boat had two chains on them so they could be put in the water safely.The ship was launched on June 7th 1906 at 12:30 p.m. The ship took 86 seconds to be launched.On July 29 1907 the Official Trails started.September 7th of the year 1907,the ship had started her maiden voyage.
             September 7,1907, The Lusitania had left Britain.
             (the Liverpool) and is sailing to New York.When they started to sail back to Britain and after 5 days in the sea,Lusitania was attacked and torpedoed.
             On May 7th 1915,Leutnant Walter Schwieger the commander of the U-boats, sighted a ship with 4 funnels which was the Lusitania.He ordered to torpedo the ship with a G-type torpedo.He then orders to fire the torpedo and it hits the ship behind the foremast. He then again hits the Lusitania. After those shots, the Lusitania starts to head towards land. She then starts to roll rapidly onto her starboard side.She sank by the head first and the ship sank in 18 minutes, taking 1,201 people with her. The ship sank 11.2 miles south, near Ireland.
             When the Americans heard what had happened to the.
             Lusitania, they got mad.When they also found out that it was the German U-boats that sank the ship, the Americans got anger at them for what they had done and this provoked the Americans to enter into World War 1.


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1. Lusitania

The Sinking of the Lusitania In September 1907, shortly after twelve, a cruise ship from the Cunard line, the Lusitania, embarked on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Queenstown, NY. ... Interestingly enough, the Lusitania was not designed as a passenger cruise ship. ... The Lusitania's bulkhead design was exactly that of warships. ... Controversy reigned for years over the weapons that the Lusitania had on board. ... Citizens of Liverpool, where most of the crew of the Lusitania lived, rioted German shops. ...

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2. Lusitania

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3. The Sinking Of The Lusitania

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4. lustinania: a fateful journey

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5. Worl War !

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6. needinglove

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7. Is 9/11 Any Diiferent?

The sinking of the passenger liner the Lusitania by the 'Huns' set the US up for entry into world war I. ... BUT in every case there is doubt - the Maine exploded,for example, and did not implode as it had to do if the Spanish sank it; the Lusitania's destroyer escort was pulled by the British (on churchill's orders without telling the captain who traveled at half-spead into the arms of the waiting u-boat;it took the Roosevelt administration 2 years to get the Japs to attack,the last straw was blocking all oil shipments to them from anywhere; the south Koreans invaded the N...

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8. Is 9/11 Any Diiferent?

The sinking of the passenger liner the Lusitania by the 'Huns' set the US up for entry into world war I. ... BUT in every case there is doubt - the Maine exploded,for example, and did not implode as it had to do if the Spanish sank it; the Lusitania's destroyer escort was pulled by the British (on churchill's orders without telling the captain who traveled at half-spead into the arms of the waiting u-boat;it took the Roosevelt administration 2 years to get the Japs to attack,the last straw was blocking all oil shipments to them from anywhere; the south Koreans invaded the N...

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9. Is 9/11 Any Diiferent?

The sinking of the passenger liner the Lusitania by the 'Huns' set the US up for entry into world war I. ... BUT in every case there is doubt - the Maine exploded,for example, and did not implode as it had to do if the Spanish sank it; the Lusitania's destroyer escort was pulled by the British (on churchill's orders without telling the captain who traveled at half-spead into the arms of the waiting u-boat;it took the Roosevelt administration 2 years to get the Japs to attack,the last straw was blocking all oil shipments to them from anywhere; the south Koreans invaded the N...

  • Word Count: 376
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

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