Lusitania: An Epic TragedyOn May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R. M. S. Lusitania pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest ocean liners afloat became the target of a terrifying new weapon and a casualty of a terrible new kind of war. Sunk off the southern coast of Ireland by a torpedo fired from the German submarine U 20, she exploded and sank in eighteen minutes, taking with her some twelve hundred