In a continuation of Cunard month here at CruiseInd, we are featuring a series of videos that some of the top maritime content creators have recently published.
Researcher and illustrator Mike Brady at the channel Oceanliner Designs has a very detailed technical history of the RMS Lusitania. As he’s an illustrator, a lot of attention is paid to digital recreations of the ship at sea as well as a deep dive into the gorgeous interiors of one of Cunard’s most famous ships.
A quick summary of the vessel from Wikipedia:
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner launched by the Cunard Line in 1906. She was the world’s largest passenger ship until the completion of the Mauretania three months later and was awarded the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908. The Lusitania was sunk on her 202nd trans-Atlantic crossing, on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,197 passengers, crew and stowaways. The sinking occurred about two years before the United States declaration of war on Germany but significantly increased public support in the US for entering the war.