Number of victims: about 1200.
1965438+Friday, May 7th, 2005, Lusitania (nickname? Greyhound? ) was sunk by a German torpedo near Old Cape Kinsell in southern Ireland. It only sank for about 20 minutes, and 1 198 men, women and children lost their lives.
In panic, the passengers on board crowded onto the lifeboat deck. The order was extremely chaotic, and the hull tilted rapidly, so the starboard lifeboat could only be used in time. In just 18 minutes, Lusitania sank into the sea with her 1 198 passengers and crew. Fortunately, however, those passengers who abandoned the ship in time were rescued by Irish fishing boats that arrived quickly and did not freeze to death in the sea. As the casualties included 198 Americans, the sinking of Lusitania, together with the Qi Merman telegram incident, became the fuse for the United States to participate in World War I.
4. The sinking time of Bismarck: 194 1 year.
Number of victims: about 2 100.
When fully loaded with goods, the displacement can reach 50,000 metric tons and the top speed is 30 miles per hour. The Bismarck loaded with several cannons is regarded as the pride of the German navy. She was described by Churchill as. A huge ship, an outstanding work of the naval fleet? From the top to the bottom of the ship, it is 17 stories high and the length is equivalent to three football fields.
However, the first voyage of this German warship became a short journey. 194 1 in may, the Bismarck was attacked by the British navy in the fiercest naval battle after chasing in the Atlantic for eight days. Bismarck was hit by the enemy's powerful artillery fire, capsized and stopped on the steep undersea mountains. Of the 2,200 people aboard Bismarck (average age 2 1 year), only 1 15 survived.
1989, after carefully searching an area of about 200 square miles, Dr. Robert and his expedition finally found the wreckage of Bismarck. The shipwreck was located about 380 miles south of Cork, Ireland, and about 65,438+05,000 feet underwater in the Atlantic Ocean.
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