RMS Lusitania RMS Lusitania RMS "Lusitania" was a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. The ship was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. The sinking presaged the United States declaration of war on Germany in 1917. The ship was a holder of the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing and was briefly the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her sister ship . The Cunard Line launched "Lusitania" in 1906, at a time of fierce competition for the North Atlantic trade. She sank on her
German submarine U-567 five destroyers, seven corvettes and one aircraft carrier, sinking the 3,324-ton Norwegian merchant ship "Annavore" on 21 December 1941. "U-567" was herself sunk later the same day at by depth charges dropped by and - there were no survivors from her crew of 47. "U-567" took part in five wolfpacks, namely. German submarine U-567 German submarine U-567 (U-567) was a type VII C submarine in Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" during the Second World War. Her keel was laid down on 27 April 1940 at the Blohm & Voss yard in Hamburg as yard number 534. She was launched on 6 March