2-715-353 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The sinking of the 'Lusitania', May 1915, (1935). 'On May 7, the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off the south of Ireland; 1198 persons lost their lives. This pictures shows only a small portion of the anxious crowds that gathered outside the Cuard Offices in London'. Although unarmed, she was carrying munitions. The sinking presaged the United States declaration of war on Germany two years later. From "The Silver Jubilee Book - The Story of 25 Eventful Years in Pictures". [Odhams Press Ltd., London, 1935]