The British ocean liner that was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I in 1915 serves as the most significant shipwreck in modern history.

Divers have recovered the main telegraph machine from the Lusitania, the wreck at the center of one of the most infamous maritime disasters of the 20th century.

The RMS Lusitania arriving in New York City in 1907. ... It contains the 4 million U.S.-made rifle bullets and other munitions that the ship had been carrying from neutral America to wartime Britain.

Nearly 100 years ago, a German U-boat fired a single torpedo into the hull of the RMS Lusitania, a hulking ship with record-breaking speed that was carrying nearly 2,000 people from New York City ...

A telegraph machine from the RMS Lusitania shipwreck, off the coast of Co Cork, was raised 102 years after it was banished to the depths of the ocean. The ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat on ...

The Uluburun shipwreck. Back around 1300 BC, the Uluburun sank off the coast of southwestern Turkey. Though it’s unclear what, exactly, caused the merchant ship to sink, it’s what was—and ...

The wreck is still down there, in 300 feet of water. Boat captain Carroll O'Donoghue feels its presence. "You remember the tragedy of it all, really," O'Donoghue said.

Part of the wreck of the Lusitania. Picture: Barry McGill/Indepth Technical Diving. After she was hit, and sank to the bottom, the boilers lay vertically as the ship lay on its side.

The Lusitania was the largest ship in the world when it made its maiden voyage in 1907. The British ship was bound forLiverpool after a transatlantic crossing in 1915, ...