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The Cunard liner Lusitania, carrying 1,918 passangers and crew, was
hit by a torpedo fired from a German U-boat at 2.00 p.m. on the afternoon of May, 7th., 1915. 764 people survived the sinking which took place10 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale. Some of the survivors are pictured at Cobh (Queenstown) railway station shortly after the event. 08/05/1915 Ref. 44
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