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Posted: 5/7/2015 8:47:34 AM EDT
100 years ago today, RMS Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine.  Of 1,962 passengers and crew on board, 1,191 people lost their lives.
Link Posted: 5/7/2015 8:51:24 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/7/2015 8:59:23 AM EDT
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Well, you run arms against your enemy, you risk them sinking your ship.  Yeah, shitty for unsuspecting passengers.
Link Posted: 5/7/2015 11:25:02 AM EDT
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Well, you run arms against your enemy, you risk them sinking your ship.  Yeah, shitty for unsuspecting passengers.
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From what I have seen, there was fair warning for those passengers.  The Germans placed ads in the papers warning about travel on British ships.

Link Posted: 5/10/2015 7:37:04 AM EDT
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the first animated documentary is of the Lusitania sinking.

starving the British out or starving the Germans out was probably the only realistic tactic they had going for them during the great stalemate
Link Posted: 5/10/2015 6:51:04 PM EDT
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There were indeed ads placed, but not all read the papers.
On the flip side, the Allies created the problem of u boats torpedoing first due to the deception the allies would use with deck guns mounted on transports to shoot the u boats when they surfaced and told the transport ship crews to go to the lifeboats.
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