overlook the Titanic and the unsuitable commercialism and thin emotional-ism the debacle keep on to enthuse
Not like the loss of the Titanic, the dipping three years later of the just as well-appointed Cunard trans-Atlantic liner RMS Lusitania, with a similar loss of life, can rightly be called an event that tainted the world.
The sinking of the Lusitania on May 7, 1915, early in the First World War, by the Ger-man submarine U-20 off the south coast of Ireland had pro-found effects on the course of the 20th century, effects that continue to resonate
today.