This article is about the British ship. For her sinking, see Sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
For other ships with the same name, see List of ships named Lusitania.
Lusitania arriving in New York City in 1907
History
United Kingdom
Name
Lusitania
Namesake
Lusitania
Owner
Cunard Line
Port of registry
Liverpool
Route
Liverpool – Queenstown – New York
Builder
John Brown & Co, Clydebank
Yard number
367
Laid down
17 August 1904
Launched
7 June 1906[1]
Christened
Mary, Lady Inverclyde
Acquired
26 August 1907
Maiden voyage
7 September 1907
In service
1907 – 1915
Out of service
7 May 1915
Identification
UK official number 124082
code letters HLJW
by 1913: wireless call sign MFA
Fate
sunk by torpedo, 7 May 1915
General characteristics
Type
Ocean liner
Tonnage
31,550 GRT, 12,611 NRT
Displacement
44,060 long tons (44,767.0 t)
Length
787 ft (239.9 m) overall[a]
762.2 ft (232.3 m) registered
Beam
87.8 ft (26.8 m)
Height
65 ft (19.8 m) to boat deck, 165 ft (50.3 m) to aerials, 104 ft (31.7 m) from keel to top of boat deck, 144 ft (43.9 m) from keel to top of funnels
Draught
33.6 ft (10.2 m)
Depth
56.6 ft (17.3 m)
Decks
9 passenger decks
Installed power
25 fire-tube boilers; four direct-acting Parsons steam turbines producing 76,000 hp (57 MW)
Propulsion
as built: four triple blade propellers
from 1909: quadruple blade propellers
Capacity
552 first class, 460 second class, 1,186 third class; 2,198 total.
Crew
850
Notes
First British four-funnelled ocean liner
RMS Lusitania (named after the Roman province corresponding to modern Portugal) was an ocean liner launched by the Cunard Line in 1906. She was the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of the Mauretania three months later and was awarded the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908. The Lusitania was sunk on her 202nd trans-Atlantic crossing, on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,197 passengers, crew and stowaways.[2] The sinking occurred about two years before the United States declaration of war on Germany but significantly increased public support in the US for entering the war.
^ abAtlantic Liners.
^The official figures give 1195 lost out of 1959, excluding three stowaways who also were lost. The figures here eliminate some repetitions from the list and people subsequently known not to be on board. "Passenger and Crew Statistics". The Lusitania Resource. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
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