Welcome to The Lusitania Resource!
Here you will find facts and history about the British passenger ship RMS Lusitania, her sinking, well as the biographies of passenger and crew on board when the German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank her on 7 May 1915.
2025 – Lusitania 110 Years On
2025 marks the 110th anniversary of the Lusitania sinking. I would have loved to join all of you attending either the Kinsale or Liverpool commemoration events this year, but some personal commitments mean that I won’t be able to attend either. However, I will provide some information and links to the 2025 events down the page should you already be or are planning to go to either one.
Once more I really want to thank you–visitors, contributors, and researchers–who have allowed this site to grow over the decades into an online encyclopedia that has far exceeded my own expectations. I never could have built up this site without all of you, and I’m incredibly grateful for your continued support.
I started this website as a student, and unfortunately now as a mid-career professional, personal and professional responsibilities means the website has to take a backseat. I hope to one day bring on a web and database organizer and designer to fix up all the issues with the site and finally get around to the updates and corrections for the site.
Please, let us continue to honor the RMS Lusitania and her passengers and crew, and may we never forget the horrific lessons of war. Thank you.
Kinsale Commemoration 2025
Events begin evening of Tuesday, 6 May 2025.
Tuesday, 6th May
The Speckled Door, Old Head
Reception for Lusitania Relatives & Friends
from 6:30pm, 7:30/8pm start
Wednesday, 7th May
Lusitania Memorial Garden, Old Head
110th Anniversary Commemoration
2:00pm (arrive by 1:45pm)
Wednesday, 7th May
St. Multose Church & Graveyard, Kinsale
Annual Commemoration Prayers
6:00 PM
More details can be found on the museum Facebook page.
If you plan to attend, please contact info@oldheadofkinsale.com
Liverpool Commemoration 2025
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
1:55 pm
Museum of Liverpool
Pier Head, Liverpool, United Kingdom, L3 1DG
We will meet by the propeller on the quaysides for our annual commemoration, remembering those that died, and all the lives impacted by this tragedy. The commemoration will start at 1.55pm.
Click here for the official event page.
Lusitania: An Illustrated Biography Volume 2 out now!
The long-awaited Volume 2 of Lusitania: An Illustrated Biography is now available for purchase! This several-years-long labor of love is now available for all to read, having been released on 17 April 2025. One of our website’s frequent contributors, Michael Poirier, is a contributing author, and this is very exciting news! Please head over to the book’s page on Atlantic Liners to purchase your copy today!
Fast Facts
The RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915, becoming a casualty of World War I. 128 American civilians died in the attack, turning American opinion against Germany, making the sinking a turning point of the war. However, the United States would not declare war on Germany and enter World War I until April 1917.
- Date attacked: 7 May 1915
- Duration of sinking: 18 minutes
- People aboard: 1,960*
- Survivors: 767* (4 died in subsequent months)
- Victims: 1,193 (per this site) + 4 survivors who died soon thereafter = 1,197*
- Americans killed: 128* (officially)
- Passenger ship carrying war materiel for the British Army when she was attacked and sunk
- Wreck location: 51°25′N 8°33′W, ~300 feet (91 meters) underwater, ~11 miles (18 km) south of the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland
*Numbers for passengers and crew subject to revision as names are cross-checked and confirmed by family members and researchers.
Other fast facts:
- Gross tonnage: 31,550
- Length overall: 787 feet / 239.8 meters
- Beam: 87 feet 6 inches / 26.7 meters
- Draft: 33 feet 6 inches / 10.2 meters
- Top speed: 26.35 knots
Read more at “Lusitania Facts and Figures“
Sticky Posts
#LusitaniaRemembered continues in #Kinsale #Liverpool #Lusitania100 #Lusitania @MerseyMaritime9 May 2015The sinking of the RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915 was not the end of the story. The survivors, after disembarking from their rescue vessels, were taken in by an unprepared but unreservedly generous […]1 Comment
#Lusitania Centennial #OnThisday: #Lusitania100 years #LusitaniaRemembered #Cobh #Kinsale #Lusitania100Cork #Cork8 May 2015Lusitania flowers at the wreck site, presented by Richard Woods (son of Nancy Wickings-Smith) Friday, 7 May 1915: The RMS Lusitania is torpedoed by the German submarine U-20 at 2:10 pm and sinks to […]9 Comments
#Lusitania100 commemoration in #Cork and #Cobh #CommodoreHotel #Lusitania #Lusitania100Cork @UCCHistory7 May 2015Wednesday, 6 May 2015 – 100 years later: All day today at University College Cork, the alma mater of Lusitania surgeon Dr. James McDermott, was the Lusitania lecture series that took place at […]3 Comments
Did #Gallipoli sink the #Lusitania or a #conspiracy? The 9/11 of its day #Lusitania100 #Gallipoli100 #WW1 #WWI1001 May 2015Lusitania in New York. Alexei Monreal collection. Perhaps it is fitting that this website’s 100th post should fall on the 100th anniversary of the Lusitania‘s last voyage. One hundred […]2 Comments
#Lusitania’s #ArmenianGenocide connection #Lusitania100 #ArmenianGenocide100 #191525 April 2015Armenian majorities in the Ottoman Empire are shown in teal in the center of the map. From Wikimedia Commons. 24 April 2015 marks the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, where an estimated 800,000 […]No Comments
Lusitania Passengers and Crew
Final Crossing (#202), departing New York City on 1 May 1915
- Saloon (1st Class) Passenger List (291 total, 113 saved, 177 lost, 1 did not sail)
- 2nd Cabin (2nd Class) Passenger List (601 total, 229 saved, 372 lost)
- 3rd Class Passenger List (373 total, 134 saved, 239 lost)
- Deck Crew List (78 total, 41 saved, 37 lost)
- Victualling Crew List (306 total, 139 saved, 167 lost)
- Engineering Crew List (313 total, 112 saved, 201 lost)
- Band (5 total, 3 saved, 2 lost)
- Stowaways (3 total, 3 lost)
- Cameronia Transfers
Read more at “People“
From the Lusitania Blog…
Lusitania: An Illustrated Biography Volume 2 out now! #Lusitania #RMSLusitania #Lusitaniasinking3 May 2025The long-awaited Volume 2 of Lusitania: An Illustrated Biography is now available for purchase! This several-years-long labor of love is now available for all to read, having been released on 17 […]No Comments
Approaching Anniversary 110 #Lusitania #RMSLusitania #Lusitania1103 May 2025The 110th Lusitania sinking anniversary is approaching, and I wanted to provide information for anyone who may be thinking of attending events in either Liverpool or Kinsale. The details are as […]No Comments
65th #AndreaDoria sinking anniversary #SSAndreaDora25 July 2021Today marks the 65th anniversary of the sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria, and D/V Tenacious is livestreaming a commemoration of the sinking over Facebook that you can watch embedded here. […]No Comments
115th #Lusitania launch anniversary #RMSLusitania8 June 2021On this day 115 years ago, 7 June 1907, the RMS Lusitania left her slip at John Brown and Co., Clydebank, Scotland, to be outfitted to become the revolutionary, luxurious, historical, and tragic ship […]No Comments
Virtual commemorations for #Lusitania sinking anniversary 106 #RMSLusitania8 May 2021Today, 7 May 2021, we remember the lives of those lost on this day 106 years ago when the German submarine U-20 torpedoed the RMS Lusitania off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. Almost 1,200 lives […]No Comments
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and all those who built and those who sailed on her.
