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
HMS Snowdrop (1915) up on 15 January 1923 to the Unity Ship Breaking Company. HMS Snowdrop (1915) HMS "Snowdrop" was an "Azalea"-class sloop of the Royal Navy. "Snowdrop" was built at the yards of McMillan, and was launched on 7 October 1915. She served during the First World War. In May 1918, she rescued the survivors from the liner , which had been torpedoed three times and sunk by "U-55" (six years earlier "Carpathia" had rescued the survivors from the ill-fated ). Also that same year, she took the American destroyer in tow, after the "Cassin" had been damaged by "U-61". "Snowdrop" survived