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
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