RMS Lusitania

Lusitania arriving in New York City in 1907
History
United Kingdom
Name	Lusitania
Namesake	Lusitania
Owner	Cunard Line
Port of registry	Liverpool
Route	Liverpool – Queenstown – New York
Builder	John Brown & Co, Clydebank
Yard number	367
Laid down	17 August 1904
Launched	7 June 1906[1]
Christened	Mary, Lady Inverclyde
Acquired	26 August 1907
Maiden voyage	7 September 1907
In service	1907 – 1915
Out of service	7 May 1915
Identification	UK official number 124082 code letters HLJW by 1913: wireless call sign MFA
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk by an SM U-20, on 7 May 1915
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	31,550 GRT, 12,611 NRT
Displacement	44,060 long tons (44,767.0 t)
Length	787 ft (239.9 m) overall[a] 762.2 ft (232.3 m) registered
Beam	87.8 ft (26.8 m)
Height	65 ft (19.8 m) to boat deck, 165 ft (50.3 m) to aerials, 104 ft (31.7 m) from keel to top of boat deck, 144 ft (43.9 m) from keel to top of funnels
Draught	33.6 ft (10.2 m)
Depth	56.6 ft (17.3 m)
Decks	6 passenger decks, 10 overall[2]
Installed power	25 fire-tube boilers; four direct-acting Parsons steam turbines producing 76,000 hp (57 MW)
Propulsion	as built: four triple blade propellers from 1909: quadruple blade propellers
Capacity	552 first class, 460 second class, 1,186 third class; 2,198 total.
Crew	850
Notes	First British four-funnelled ocean liner

RMS Lusitania (named after the Roman province corresponding to modern Portugal) 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.

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