In a continuation of Cunard month here at CruiseInd, we will now be featuring a series of videos that some of the top maritime content creators have recently published.
Elinor at the channel Shipwreck Sunday created this excellent video that goes over the entire life of Cunard’s famous RMS Lusitania.
A quick summary of the vessel from Wikipedia:
RMS Lusitania (named after the Roman province corresponding to modern Portugal and portions of western Spain) 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.[3] 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.