Kingdom of Northern Lusitania Kingdom of Northern Lusitania The Kingdom of Northern Lusitania (Portuguese: "Reino da Lusitânia Setentrional") was a kingdom proposed by Napoleon in 1807 for the King of Etruria, Charles II, located in the North of Portugal. In 1807 Portugal refused Napoleon's demand to accede to the Continental System of embargo against the United Kingdom. Napoleon, having signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau on 27 October, 1807, with Spain, defined the occupation of Portugal, proposing that the country would be divided into three different states: A French invasion under Marshal Junot followed, and the capital city of Lisbon was captured on 1 December
RMS Lusitania contract with the British Admiralty and other British authorities to partially salvage "Lusitania". The means of salvage was unique in that a steel tube, five feet in diameter, which enclosed stairs, and a dive chamber at the bottom would be floated out over the "Lusitania" wreck and then sunk upright, with the dive chamber resting on the main deck of "Lusitania". Divers would then take the stairs down to the dive chamber and then go out of the chamber to the deck of "Lusitania". Lake's primary business goals were to salvage the purser's safe and any items of historical value.