Old Head of Kinsale
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The Old Head of Kinsale is a headland near Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland.
Lighthouse on the Old Head
Old Head Castle, c. 1830
The Memorial Garden at the Lusitania Museum & Signal Tower Museum, Old Head
The lighthouse and a portion of the Old Head Golf Links
Sinking of RMS Lusitania
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RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, I
Old Head of Kinsale
…An early lighthouse was established here in the 17th century by Robert Reading. The area is the nearest point of land to where the RMS Lusitania was sunk in 1915, 18 kilometres (9+1⁄2 nautical miles) from the site of the sinking. Currently, access to the Old Head is restricted as it is on the site of a…
Painting of the sinking, from the German Federal Archives
The German pre-war submarine fleet at harbour in Kiel. U-20 is second from left
The official warning issued by the Imperial German Embassy about travel to the UK, appearing on 30 April next to the Lusitania voyage advertisement
Lusitania departing New York, 1 May, in the last known photograph of her before her sinking