Click here for an essay contributed to us for use on this website by author Mitch Peeke entitled RMS Lusitania: A Concise History.
Recent News & Updates
Update 17 Feb. 2022: Please see the important RTE Nationwide documentary on the efforts to build the Lusitania Museum in Ireland which is available here, which was aired on 12 February 2022.
Update 02 Feb. 2022: Technical divers were able to access boiler rooms 2 and 3 on August 10, 2021. Photographs of the boilers confirms both boilers are intact, providing strong evidence that coal dust and the boilers were not the cause of the second explosion sinking the Lusitania. Please visit Lusitania Project 17 for more information.
Update 17 July 2020: Please help raise funds for diver Kim Martin, who was paralyzed from the neck down while diving the Lusitania after suffering from nitrogen narcosis. Please visit his GoFundMe page here. See the story of the accident here.