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
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
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr. was an American businessman and member of the Vanderbilt family. A sportsman, he participated in and pioneered a number of related endeavors. He died in the sinking of the
Sinking of RMS Lusitania
…Frances McIntosh Stephens, 64. Montreal socialite and wife of politician George Washington Stephens; with her perished her infant grandson. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 37. Sportsman, millionaire, member of the Vanderbilt family, and one of four American "men of world wide prominence" named in the 1918 film The Sinking…
Alfred Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt Hotel, built in 1913
Alfred Vanderbilt driving the Coaching Club's Pioneer
Vanderbilt's coach, Venture