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
7th U-boat Flotilla 7th U-boat Flotilla The 7th U-boat Flotilla (German "7. Unterseebootsflottille"), also known as Wegener Flotilla, was the seventh operational U-boat combat unit in Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine". Founded on June 25, 1938, under the command of "Korvettenkapitän" Werner Sobe, it was named in honour of "Kapitänleutnant" Bernd Wegener. Wegener, a U-boat commander during World War I, died on August 19, 1915, after his submarine "U-27" was sunk by British Q-ship HMS "Baralong", which was an atrocity and war crime itself. The flotilla, under the name "Wegener Flotilla", was founded in Kiel in June 1938. In September 1940, the flotilla left its