Lusitania
Davidson Bros.' Real Photographic Series
London & New York. (Printed in England)
This is postmarked in 1908 with a one cent stamp.
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Lusitania
Davidson Bros.' Real Photographic Series
London & New York. (Printed in England)
This postcard is unused and from 1908.
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R.M.S. "Lusitania."
Sunk by German Submarine off Old Head of Kinsale, 7th May 1915.
This one is postmarked on May 19, 1915 only 12 days after it sunk.
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RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland. The ship entered passenger service with the Cunard Line on 26 August 1907. It was named after the ancient Roman province of Lusitania, which is part of present day Portugal. During the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against Britain, the ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 on 7 May 1915 and sank in eighteen minutes. The vessel went down eleven miles (18 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard, leaving 761 survivors. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, contributed to the American entry into World War I and became an iconic symbol in military recruiting campaigns of why the war was being fought.
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