This is my NEW RMS Lusitania!
The old Lusitania is outdated and not good enough anymore.

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History:

RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk by a German submarine in World War I. causing a major diplomatic uproar. The ship was a holder of the Blue Riband, and briefly the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her running mate Mauretania. She was launched by the Cunard Line in 1906, at a time of fierce competition for the North Atlantic trade. She made a total of 202 trans-Atlantic crossings.



German shipping lines were aggressive competitors in the
transatlantic trade, and Cunard responded by trying to outdo them in
speed, capacity and luxury. Lusitania and Mauretania were fitted with revolutionary new turbine engines, able to maintain a service speed of 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph). Equipped with lifts, wireless telegraph
and electric light, they provided 50% more passenger space than any
other ship, and the first class decks were noted for their sumptuous
furnishings.


When RMS Lusitania left New York for Britain on 1 May 1915, German submarine warfare was intensifying in the Atlantic. Germany had declared the seas around the United Kingdom
a war zone, and the German embassy in the United States had placed a
newspaper advertisement warning people of the dangers of sailing on Lusitania. On the afternoon of 7 May, Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-Boat, 11 mi (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland
and inside the declared "zone of war". A second, unexplained, internal
explosion sent her to the bottom in 18 minutes, causing the deaths of
1,198 passengers and crew.


In firing on what was officially a non-military ship without warning,
the Germans were accused of breaching international laws known as the Cruiser Rules. However it was not possible for submarines to give warning due to the British introduction of Q-ships with concealed deck guns. German justifications for treating Lusitania
as a naval vessel centered on the fact that the ship was carrying
hundreds of tons of war munitions, therefore making it a legitimate
military target, and also that British merchant ships had orders to
ignore the Cruiser Rules themselves^.
The ship had been fitted with 6-inch gun mounts in 1913. The sinking
caused a storm of protest in the United States, as 128 American citizens
were among the dead. The ship's sinking provided Britain with a
propaganda opportunity, which helped shift public opinion in the United
States against Germany, and was a factor in the United States' decleration of war nearly two years later.

[size=110%]History[/size]
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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 [url=tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=RMS_Lusitania¶ms=51_25_N_8_33_W_type:landmark_scale:3000000]51°25′N 8°33′W[/url]Coordinates: [url=tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=RMS_Lusitania¶ms=51_25_N_8_33_W_type:landmark_scale:3000000]51°25′N 8°33′W[/url]
Status:	Partially-collapsed wreck
[size=110%]General characteristics[/size]
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-acting Parsons 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

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