RMS Lusitania Sinking of the 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
German submarine U-24 (1936) by the Soviet Union in early 1945, but sunk as target practice by the on 26 May 1947, off Sevastopol (also sunk that same day was the former ). German submarine U-24 (1936) German submarine "U-24" was a Type IIB U-boat that was in service of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" during World War II. She was laid down on 21 April 1936 at the F. Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel with yard number 554, launched on 24 September and commissioned into the "Kriegsmarine" on 10 October. "Oberleutnant zur See" Heinz Buchholz took command on 3 July 1937. German Type IIB submarines were