| LC control no. | n 79115984 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Lusitania (Steamship) |
| Variant(s) | R.M.S. Lusitania (Steamship) RMS Lusitania (Steamship) |
| Beginning date | 1906-06-07 |
| Ending date | 1915-05-07 |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Lake County Hist. Soc. for International Apple Shippers Association collection, 1912-1922 (R.M.S. Lusitania) English Wikipedia website, viewed Mar. 19, 2015 (RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner, holder of the Blue Riband, and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. She was launched by the Cunard Line in 1906, at a time of fierce competition for the North Atlantic trade. In 1915, she was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat, causing the deaths of 1,198 passengers and crew. Name: RMS Lusitania; Owner: Cunard Lin; Operator: Cunard Line; Port of registry: Liverpool; Route: New York to Liverpool; Builder: John Brown & Co. Ltd, Clydebank, Scotland; Yard number: 367; Laid down: 9 June 1904; Launched: 7 June 1906; Christened: Mary, Lady Inverclyde; Maiden voyage: 7 September 1907; In service: 1907-1915; Fate: Torpedoed by German U-boat U-20 on Friday 7 May 1915. Wreck lies approximately 11 mi (18 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale Lighthouse in 300 ft (91 m) of water at 51°25'N 8°33'W; Status: wreck) |
| National bib agency no. | 1031L3192E |
| Quality code | nlc |
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