Propeller From The RMS Lusitania

This 17-ton propeller was recovered from the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner built in 1906 and operated by the Conard Line. The ship entered passenger service in August 1907 and continued on the line's heavily traveled Liverpool to New York City route. During World War I, the Lusitania was torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 on May 7, 1915. It sank in 18 minutes at 2:28 p.m., 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard, including almost one hundred children. The bodies of many victims were never recovered and remain entombed inside the wreckage. The sinking turned the sentiments of neutral nations against Germany and helped provoke the United States into entering the war two years later. The removal of three of the four propellers was completed in 1982, with one at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool and a third melted down.

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