This is the only time in history a torpedo caused a secondary explosion < /Rosie>
It was probably the center fuel tank.....
Unfortunetly the germans probably had good reason to sink it. Just saying!
Aw, fer cryin’ out loud!!!!! Do I need an “Imaging Licence” to take a picture of the Blarney Stone, too?????
Of course, if you question whether we should have gotten into the First World War, you must be pro-Hitler.
If it's his, why does he have to get permission to take pictures of it?
It’s not clear from this article what the Department of the Environment’s concern is. Barnacles?
I thought it was already pretty well established that the Lusitania was carrying munitions.
“Bemis is hoping that the week-long filming project, which begins today, will prove his theory that the Lusitania was carrying explosives, and that these were the cause of the mysterious second blast.”
I believe dives have already brought up explosive armaments? I recall seeing a program some time ago where they showed caps made by bethlehem steel that had been recovered.
Read it was coal dust that caused the major damage when it exploded from the torpedo ....
Does anyone have current information on the wreck’s actual condition?
Fascinating article and discussion!
***The RMS Lusitania sank off the coast of Cork in May 1915 when a German U-boat torpedoed it. An undetermined second explosion is believed to have speeded its sinking, with 1,198 passengers and crew losing their lives. ***
If I remember my history, the German embassy took out adds in the NY newspapers warning passengers that the ship was carrying munitions of war to the English and would be a legitimate target.
Riddle of Lusitania sinking may finally be solved
“The RMS Lusitania sank off the coast of Cork in May 1915 when a German U-boat torpedoed it.”
Riddle solved.
This is going by memory so I could be wrong but I thought I saw a TV doc about the Lusitania sinking and it claimed the liner had an escort part of the journey across the Atlantic then when the liner was near the Irish coast the escorts went away eventhough the coast off Ireland was a favorite U-Boat hunting ground. This was part of the theory the Brits wanted the Lusitania torpodeod to bring the US into the war.
His theory is based on the fact that, to keep a very large ship like Lusitania in trim, the engine crew (aka Black Gang) had to be constantly moving the coal from one bunker to another; hence keeping the boilers fired involved what amounted to continuous coal mining, a process that produced huge amounts of highly explosive (when mixed with the oxygen in the air) coal dust. Then, when the torpedo entered this explosive environment it functioned as a super detonator, igniting the clouds of coal dust the same way an electric spark can operate in a grain elevator filed with grain dust.
Someone please explain how you buy a shipwreck, and then have to get a license from the government to take pictures of what you purchased???
Maybe the Lusitania was carrying contraband munitions. That would account for the secondary explosions and for its targeting by the German navy.