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
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (book) The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (book) The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship is a book illustrated by Uri Shulevitz that retells a Russian fairy tale of the same name. The text is taken from Arthur Ransome's version of the story in the 1916 book "Old Peter's Russian Tales"; Ransome had collected the folktale when he was a journalist in Russia. The book was released in 1968 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and won a Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1969. The Czar announced that whoever brought him a flying ship could marry his