The Sextant
From the Thomas A. Edison Papers, Rutgers University On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the Cunard passenger liner RMS Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew, including 128 Americans. “The sinking of the Lusitania,” says Thomas E. Jeffrey, Ph.D., senior editor of …
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