An artist's impression of R.M.S. Lusitania,  passenger liner as a second torpedo hits behind a gaping hole in the hull. During a trans-Atlantic crossing on 7 May 1915, bound for Liverpool from New York she was just 11 miles (18 km) off off Kinsale Head, Ireland, when she was sunk  by a German U-boat. Of the 1,962 passengers and crew aboard Lusitania at the time of the sinking, 1,198 lost their lives. Stock Photo