Queen of the Seas as she become to be know as. In May 1905 the keel of the RMS Lusitania was laid down the sister of Maurian. She was made at John Brown & Co Ltd  and Lusitania was now the largest ship in the world she had seven decks for the use of passengers, who enjoyed the palatial accommodation. There was six-berth cabins for 3rd class passengers not 1,2,3 and some where 4. Just like her sister Mauretaina she could make up to 25 knots driven by direct-drive steam turbines which developed up to around 68,000 IHP and, revolving at 180 rpm. Lusitania was now ready for her sea trils put didnt pass because of her greet speed at 25 konts this vivbert the sten quite alot and this had to be fix removeing mostly 2nd class cabins and puting more pills in. On 7 September 1907 on its maiden voyage to Queenstown and New York. It was estimated that over 200,000 people went to witness the Lusitania departure. The Lusitania didnt break the Blue Riband on this but she broke in the next voyage on 5 October 1907. In June 1908 Lusitania the outer propellers were replaced with improved versions and in November Captain William Turner was appointed to command the Lusitania. He was a Liverpool man who first went to sea when he was just 13 on board the sailing ship White Star. He joined Cunard in 1878 and was holder of the Humane Society's silver medal for saving life at sea. During his career he served on the Cherbourg, Umbria, Carpathia, Ivernia and Caronia. Soon, in February 1909, the ship was fitted with new four-bladed propellers. Lusitania has a priity bad run with broken propellers blade and turbines the turbines finel broke its recored in March 1914 on a voyage from New York to Liverpool. Then World war one begain this means that Lusitania was about to change. Upon arrival in the Mersey the Admiralty decided that they did not need Lusitania the as an armed merchant cruiser but they paid for the Lusitania to remain at Liverpool at their disposal. The Lusitania made two trips between Liverpool and New York during October 1914 and then began a monthly service on this route. In order to save on coal and labour six of the ship's boilers were closed down and its maximum speed reduced to 21 knots. For its 17 April voyage from Liverpool the Lusitania was commanded by Captain William Turner, who relieved Captain Dow when he went on leave. It made its final sailing from Pier 54 in New York on 1 May 1915, with some 1,959 passengers on board, amongst whom were the usual sprinkling of famous and wealthy. The cargo was entered on the manifest as foodstuffs, metal rods, ingots and boxes of cartridges. Controversy about the true nature of the cargo would persist for many years.

no-one would "dare" attack the Lusitania.

On the 7th of May danger zone, waters in which enemy submarines might be expected. Captain Turner took all possible precautions ordering all the lifeboats to be swung out, all the bulkhead doors to be closed, look-outs to be doubled and steam pressure to be kept high to give the ship all possible speed in case of emergency. At 8.00am speed was reduced to 18 knots.At 2.00pm the passengers were finishing their lunch, and at 2.15pm the ship was 10 to 15 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale with the weather clear and the sea smooth. Captain Turner then heard the second officer shout 'There is a torpedo coming, Sir'. Immediately afterwards there was a terrific explosion on the starboard side, between the third and fourth funnels. Almost simultaneously there was a second explosion, which was thought at the time to be a second torpedo but has since been confirmed as an internal explosion. He hoped to save the ship by grounding it on the beach, the speed was 18 knots, but the intercom was not working at his orders we not heard. Distress calls were sent out informing anyone that she was listing. Officers had already started lowering passengers into the lifeboats when the order from Turner to cease was given. One officer ignored this and continued. The speed of the liner caused the lifeboats to be shatter as it hit the water and all in the lifeboat were drowned. Another attempt was made to launch on the other side. The ship listed heavily and the lifeboat was smashed against the side of the ship. They realised that escape in lifeboats was useless, but despite this, there was no panic on the ship. The ship continued to send distress signals, when power failed and the radio operator switched over to battery supply. It was only minutes since the torpedo hit the ship. There was a few ship who where rushing to the stricken liner one was the Juno an old cruiser and several trawlers.

Commander Turner was still at his post, he tried to turn the ship to starboard but found the ship would not respond, the rudder jammed and then he ordered full astern, once more the bow pointed to the coast. He believed that he could steam ahead and reach the shore. The ship continued to take on water, the communication system was not working and the turbines broke down. Panic finally happened and the third class passenger rushed the lifeboats, once again the lifeboat failed and its occupants were thrown into the sea. Commander Turner attempted to restore order by telling the passenger that everything was alright.

Lusitania rolled slowly on to her side, some passengers remained on board, others jumped into the sea. The U-20 the one who fired the torpedo noted a second large explosion followed by smoke. He noted two explosion, and believed that either the cargo or boilers had exploded. He noted the ship began to immediately list and the prow was sinking beneath the water. His log also stated that several lifeboats had overturned. After this he dived and made his escape to open sea. More passages continued to jump in to the sea It was 2:30pm, eighteen minutes had passed since the torpedo hit. Believing he was the last on board, Captain Turner climbed down the ladder and jumped into the sea. Looking back he saw the stern high in the air and the four props were visible. He saw a human clinging to the stern. By this time the bow would have been resting on the sea bed. For a few moments the scene remained the same then with a deafening sound and clouds of spray, the Lusitania disappeared beneath the water. The pride of the Cunard Line was gone. Unknown to most at that time 1198 people had remained on the ship, including 785 passengers. 94 children had died and 35 of them were under 4 years old. The entire world was shocked at this "act of piracy".

It was proven in the that the Lusitania second explosion was by the troped iigntion highly fule dust that went up in the air and below the hell out of the hold this made Lusita si

I was watching a documnerty on the sinking of the Lusitania i must say i was quite touched in this documnenty mostly because they way people spoke in the doc was good but it was sad. One of this most sad part in it you get to see the old pier 54 with still Cunard Line on it when i saw that i allmost cryed sad to see such a great Line such a great ship.