Lusitania

>A second, unexplained, internal explosion sent her to the seabed in 18 minutes, with the deaths of 1,198 passengers and crew.

hmm...

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well yeah it had munitions on board

Are you implying with your filename that it wasn't a German U-boat at all? because thats stupid.

>2818150

This. The germans still hit it first.

This.

Also remember reading something about coal dust in the bunkers contributing to the explosions.

That was the Anglo coverup story. Divers have found conclusive evidence that ammunitions were carried by the vessel.
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>seven gleaming rounds of .303 ammunition, probably made by Remington in America and intended for the British Army. Ammunition that for decades British and American officials said didn't exist. Yet all around Andrews are mountains of jumbled rifle cartridges that glint like pirate's treasure in the robot's light.

>Gregg Bemis, the American venture capitalist who planned and paid for this expedition, says if they're lucky, the dive team could find as many as 4 million bullets.

People still believe in the innocence of the Anglo; Anglo propaganda was really good and is still effective.

It was still wrong to sink the ship, even if there were weapons onboard. Why didn't they just board the ship, search it, and then give the passengers a chance to reach lifeboats before sinking it?

Germans in America warned them to not board the liner. It had entered the 'war zone' anyway, so either the USA was just dumb (unlikely), or this was a joint British-American plan to involve the public in the war.

Another inside job,like the Maine?

First Spain, later Germany

God bless USA

Germans in America warned Germany not to follow the rules of war? When you sink a merchant vessel, you're supposed to give a warning so that people have time to get into lifeboats.

In February 1915, Germany boldly announced that all Allied ships would be sunk without warning. America was neutral at the time, but in late April, the Germans published a warning in American newspapers, specifically naming Lusitania. It read in part, “Travellers intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or any of her allies, are liable to destruction in those waters and that travellers sailing in the war zone do so at their own risk.”

Lusitania had been designated as an “armed merchant cruiser” by the British, which meant it could be converted to a warship if necessary. It was deemed too large to be of use in combat, but it raised the issue of whether or not it was a legitimate military target

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I think they dropped that tactic when the merchant ships started firing on the U-Boats who surfaced

Eternal Anglo did it on purpose to gather sympathy from the USA. They knew full well what they were doing and they just did it anyway.

The latter probably:
>Suspicions were also raised by the lack of rescue assistance by the British Navy. When the Lusitania transmitted its SOS signal, Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Coke dispatched every ship he had at his disposal including the cruiser Juno, the ship that had been ordered to abandon its convoy responsibilities. But soon after, in a bizarre turn of events, the Juno was ordered back to port by Admiral Lord Fisher without rescuing any passengers.

The anglo intentionally abandoned the Lusitania to increase casualties in order to draw support for American participation in WW1.

The Lusitania was not a merchnat ship.

This is some next level jewry

Lusitania was actually the Titanic, while the Olympic sank in 1912

>merchant vessel
It was obviously a trolling wessel.

Why didint the Germans honor America's right to sell weapons to their enemy?

Seriously though Germany would have been better off if they did, instead they stupidly drew America into the war.

Why didnt England honor America's right to sell weapons to Germany?

I thought that it was universal knowledge that the Lusitania exploded because it was carrying ammunition Underneath to sell to the British. The Germans announced they would check every ship for ammunition to the Americans- to which you all agreed. The Lusitania did not comply to a check (for obvious reasons). The Germans decided to follow the ship until it was close to land, and sink the ship at a distance close enough to save the lives of everyone on it. However, the Germans ended up shooting a pocket of ammunition, and the ship blew up several times.

There was literally no better way they could have handled it. America had chosen sides and the Lusitania sealed its fate.

In school we were taught the Germans sank the Lusitania for no apparent reason, making the Americans join the war
It has only been very recent that i learnt the sinking was a completely justified action

I have to admit the eternal anglo is very good at twisting the truth and propaganda

>Why didn't they just board the ship, search it, and then give the passengers a chance to reach lifeboats before sinking it?
Because that's not how submarine warfare works, it means giving the enemy navy a much better chance to hunt you down.

Even Indy Neidel disbelieves the ammunition theory.
Never underestimate the Anglo.

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