Which British liner was torpedoed and sunk near the Old Head of Kinsale in May 1915?
Kinsale the period of France's First Empire. When the ocean liner RMS Lusitania was sunk by a U-boat of the German Empire on 7 May 1915 on a voyage from New York City to Liverpool during the First World War, some of the bodies and survivors were brought to Kinsale and the subsequent inquest on the bodies recovered was held in the town's courthouse. A statue in the harbour commemorates the effort. The Lusitania memorial is at Casement Square in Cobh, to the east of Cork city. Kinsale was linked by a branch line via Farrangalway and Ballymartle to the Irish
Old Head of Kinsale the Old Head lighthouse. Old Head of Kinsale The Old Head of Kinsale (in Irish, "An Seancheann") is a headland near Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. An early lighthouse was established here in the 17th century by Robert Reading. The area is the nearest point of land (11 miles/18 km) to where the RMS "Lusitania" was sunk in 1915. The old head of Kinsale was formed by differential erosion. An outcrop of hard sandstone is lodged between two layers of shale. The shale is eroded by marine action at a faster rate than the sandstone. The sandstone anticlines were much more