Lusitania Propeller
A propeller from the RMS Lusitania on display as part of the Merseyside Maritime Museum collection on display at Canning Dock, Liverpool.
The information board alongside reads:
"Lusitania propeller, 1909
This propeller was one of four from passenger liner RMS Lusitania (1907). She sailed between Liverpool and New York until she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915 with the loss of 1,191 lives.
Lusitania and her sister ship Mauretania were owned by Liverpool's Cunard Line and carried passengers and mail on regular services to the U.S.A. Lusitania held the Blue-Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by a passenger vessel. making the trip in under 4.5 days. This propeller was fitted in 1909 to improve her speed.
Lusitania continued her transatlantic run after the outbreak of the First World War until she sank in under twenty minutes off the coast of southern Ireland. People were outraged by the deliberate targeting of a passenger ship and Lusitania's fate still causes controversy today."
Lusitania Propeller
A propeller from the RMS Lusitania on display as part of the Merseyside Maritime Museum collection on display at Canning Dock, Liverpool.
The information board alongside reads:
"Lusitania propeller, 1909
This propeller was one of four from passenger liner RMS Lusitania (1907). She sailed between Liverpool and New York until she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915 with the loss of 1,191 lives.
Lusitania and her sister ship Mauretania were owned by Liverpool's Cunard Line and carried passengers and mail on regular services to the U.S.A. Lusitania held the Blue-Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by a passenger vessel. making the trip in under 4.5 days. This propeller was fitted in 1909 to improve her speed.
Lusitania continued her transatlantic run after the outbreak of the First World War until she sank in under twenty minutes off the coast of southern Ireland. People were outraged by the deliberate targeting of a passenger ship and Lusitania's fate still causes controversy today."