Featuring the 31,550 grt, 787 ft (239.9 metre) long Lusitania lauched in 1906 and torpedoed by German U-boat U-20 on 7 May 1915 approximately 11 miles (18 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale Lighthouse, Ireland, in 300 ft (91 metres) of water.
Nice artwork. Of interest is I have been commissioned to paint her under attack and apparently she had a change of colours before her ill fated voyage. Its believed she was carrying some ammunitions for UK which may or may not have been responsible for a second explosion after the inital torpedo strike, but some marine historians dispute it calming it was more likely her outer starboard boiler blowing up.
Nice artwork. Of interest is I have been commissioned to paint her under attack and apparently she had a change of colours before her ill fated voyage. Its believed she was carrying some ammunitions for UK which may or may not have been responsible for a second explosion after the inital torpedo strike, but some marine historians dispute it calming it was more likely her outer starboard boiler blowing up.
ReplyDeleteIt's thought that the ship was carrying munition, the reason for the U-Boat attack, though how the Germans would have known that is interesting.
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