Lusitania puppet Kingdom of Northern Lusitania as one of the successor states to Portugal under the assumption that such a campaign would result in an easy French victory. The province was also the namesake of the North Atlantic Ocean Liner RMS Lusitania infamous for being torpedoed by a German Uboat in 1915. The ship’s owners the Cunard Line commonly named their vessels after Roman provinces with the Lusitania so being called after the Roman Iberian province to the north of the Strait of Gibraltar while her sistership RMS Mauretania was named after the Roman North African province on the south side
Lusitania (1805 ship) Guinea. In November 1828 she was at Saint George's Channel, where she encountered many "old friends" among the locals, suggesting that she had been that way before. On 2 February she spoke "Cyrus". Nine days later "Lusitania" was at Carteret Bay, where she traded with islanders who had come some distance overland to trade a hog for an old whaling lance. "Lusitania" was again at Coupang on 27 April. By 1829 illness aboard "Lusitania" was so bad that she had to return home. She returned via Delagoa Bay and the Cape of Good Hope. She returned to Britain on 26