Title: U-boat Campaign (World War I)
Content: of sea declared safe by von Pohl. The ship had been en route for America to collect food for starving Belgians, and its sinking outraged American citizens already unhappy at the death of Leon C. Thrasher, drowned when was sunk on 28 March 1915 by (Thrasher incident). On 7 May 1915, the liner was torpedoed by , off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, and sank in just 18 minutes. Of the 1,959 people aboard, 1,198 were killed, 128 of them US citizens. Following the incident, the German government attempted to justify it with a range of arguments, which are

Title: William P. Frye (1901)
Content: January 28, 1915. "William P. Frye" was the first American vessel sunk during World War I. The crew and passengers of "William P. Frye", including some women and children, were part of some 350 people taken prisoner from eleven different ships "Prinz Eitel Friedrich" had searched and destroyed. All 350 were released on March 10, 1915, when the German raider docked in the American port of Newport News, Virginia due to engine trouble. An outraged American government forced the Germans to apologize for the sinking. The owners of the ship, Arthur Sewall & Co., wanted damages for the sinking of

Title: Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
Content: the world on an unprecedented scale. On 7 May 1915, a German torpedo sent the ship to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean in just 18 minutes—its speedy descent into the depths occurring far too fast for most of those aboard to make it to the lifeboats. Of the 1,962 passengers and crew on board, 1,200 were lost, including 94 children and, crucially, 128 US civilians, many of whom were prominent figures. President Woodrow Wilson's neutral stance started to crack. All over the country there were calls for the United States to take up arms against Germany. In many

Title: U-5-class submarine (Austria-Hungary)
Content: War in 1914. The submarine scored most of her wartime successes during the first year of the war while under the command of Georg Ritter von Trapp. The French armoured cruiser , sunk in April 1915, was the largest ship sunk by "U-5". In May 1917, "U-5" hit a mine and sank with the loss of six men. She was raised, rebuilt, and recommissioned, but sank no more ships. At the end of the war, "U-5" was ceded to Italy as a war reparation, and scrapped in 1920. In all, "U-5" sank four ships totaling 21,604 tons. SM "U-6" was

Title: Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
Content: commercial British steamship "Falaba" was sunk by a German submarine with the loss of 111 lives, including one American. In the spring of 1915 a German bomb struck an American ship, the "Cushing" and a German submarine torpedoed an American tanker, the "Gulflight". Wilson took the view, based on some reasonable evidence, that both incidents were accidental, and that a settlement of claims could be postponed to the end of the war. A German submarine torpedoed and sank the British ocean liner RMS "Lusitania" in May 1915; over a thousand perished, including many Americans. Wilson did not call for war;

Question: Which ship was sunk by a German submarine in 1915 with a loss of 1400 lives including 128 Americans?
Answer: Lusitania