Lusitania the other provinces to form the "Diocesis Hispaniarum" ("Diocese of the Hispanias"). As with the Roman names of many European countries, "Lusitania" was and is often used as an alternative name for Portugal, especially in formal or literary and poetic contexts. The 16th-century colony that would eventually become Brazil was initially founded as "New Lusitania". In common use are such terms as Lusophone, meaning Portuguese-speaking, and Lusitanic, referring to the Community of Portuguese Language Countries—once Portugal's colonies and presently independent countries still sharing some common heritage. Prior to his invasion in 1807, Napoleon Bonaparte proposed the establishment of a French-backed
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.