WRECK OF LUSITANIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 176, 25 June 1935, Page 5

WRECK OF LUSITANIA.

SALVAGE SCHEME. The steamer Ophir is ready to leave Glasgow n search of the wreck of the Lusitania, says a recent report. She is equipped with diving apparatus that is able to resist intense pressure at a depth of 1200 feet, from which it is hoped to take a film of the wreck and later to carry out salvage work.

The Lusitania, a Cunard liner, was sunk without warning off the Old Head of Kinsale 'by a German submarine, about 2 p.m. on May 7, 1915. She was on a voyage from New York to Liverpool, and carried more than 2000 passengers, 1300 of whom were drowned. In less than an hour after being struck the Lusitania sank. Only 79 Americans out of 218 who sailed in the liner were saved. Intense indignation was expressed in the United States, and President Wilson condemned Germany’s action in most emphatic language after unsatisfactory explanations had been received by the German Embassy in Washington. The sinking had a great influence upon America’s decision to enter the war on the side of the Allies. The Lusitania was 785 feet long, < and had a displacement of 40,000 ton’s.