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| Name: | Lusitania |
| Owner: | Cunard Line |
| Operator: | Cunard Line |
| Port of registry: | Liverpool |
| Route: | Liverpool to New York |
| Builder: | John Brown & Co, Clydebank, Scotland |
| Yard number: | 367 |
| Laid down: | 17 August 1904 |
| Launched: | 7 June 1906[1] |
| Christened: | Mary, Lady Inverclyde[2] |
| Acquired: | 26 August 1907 |
| Maiden voyage: | 7 September 1907 |
| In service: | 1907–1915 |
| Fate: | Torpedoed by German U-boat U-20 on Friday 7 May 1915. Wreck lies approximately 11 mi (18 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale Lighthouse in 300 ft (91 m) of water at 51°25′N 8°33′WCoordinates: 51°25′N 8°33′W |
| Status: | Partially-collapsed wreck |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage: | 31,550 GRT |
| Displacement: | 44,060 long tons (44,767.0 t) |
| Length: | 787 ft (239.9 m)[a] |
| Beam: | 87 ft (26.5 m) |
| Height: | 60 ft (18.3 m) to boat deck, 165 ft (50.3 m) to aerials |
| Draught: | 33.6 ft (10.2 m) |
| Decks: | 9 passenger decks |
| Installed power: | 25 Scotch boilers. Four direct-actingParsons steam turbines producing 76,000 hp (57 MW). |
| Propulsion: | Four triple blade propellers. (Quadruple blade propellers installed in 1909). |
| Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) (top speed, single day's run in March 1914) |
| Capacity: | 552 first class, 460 second class, 1,186 third class. 2,198 total. 7,000 tons coal. |
| Crew: | 850 |
| Notes: | First ship of Cunard's grand trio, along with RMS Mauretania and RMS Aquitania |
| Progress | 100% complete |
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