| Andrew Bird – Lusitania Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| The Lusitania was ship sunk in WW1 12 miles off the coast of Ireland. It went down in just 18 minutes after being hit by just 1 torpedo, 1198 people died. In my view the ship sinking was down to Churchill wanting to get USA into the war (we don't study this war no more/libel perhaps too) So much is spoken of the Titanic that the Lusitania is lost in time to most. It caused uproar and riot across Britain and Germany was labelled as 'Uncivilised' as it was the first time normal citizens were caught up and killed in war (we that's not including all the murders of Native americans etc of-course) If you dig around this story however it gets pretty dirty (there was ammunition contraban onbuard, Churchill knew there were Uboats in the area but did not protect the ship as had promised and there was a big cover up at the inquest. There is a good film on youtube called 'Murder on the Atlantic' and worth checking out. My grt grandfather was one of the helmsmen on the shop that day. He was one of the 1198 that drowned. | |
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