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) January 1830 with 500 casks and 36 tanks of whale oil. "Lusitania" was last listed in "Lloyd's Register" in 1838, but the listing had been unchanged for several years and showed no owner or trade. Citations References Lusitania (1805 ship) Lusitania was a British merchant vessel launched in 1804. She emerges from the general background for two notable events in her history, one in 1813 when the French Navy captured and released her, and then between 1826 and 1830 for a whaling voyage. On 27 August 1807, Captain John Carman received a letter of marque for "Lusitania". In 1813 "Lusitania"s