Numerous vessels have borne the name Lusitania, named after Lusitania, an ancient Roman province corresponding to most of modern Portugal. The most famous was:
RMS Lusitania (launched 1906), a British ocean liner operated by the Cunard Steamship Company, that a German U-boat sank in 1915 during World War I with the loss of 1,199 lives.
Other vessels include:
Lusitania (1805 ship) that a French frigate captured in 1813 and released, and that between 1826 and 1830 made a whaling voyage to Timor and the waters around Papua New Guinea.
SS Lusitania (1853) was a steamship built by John Laird at Birkenhead and launched in August 1853.[1]
SS Lusitania (1871) was an Orient Steam Navigation Company ocean liner wrecked off Nova Scotia in 1901[2]
SS Lusitania (built 1906), a Portuguese liner wrecked on Bellows Rock, Cape Point on 18 April 1911
HMS Lusitania, the badly-damaged sloop HMS Chanticleer, was a base ship at Horta, Azores from 1943 to 1945
^"Ocean Steam Navigation". The Times. No. 21516. London. 25 August 1853. col D, p. 9.
^"Lusitania wrecked off Newfoundland coast; Passengers numbering more than 350 escape in lifeboats" (PDF). The New York Times. 27 June 1901. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
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