page_title: Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
section_title: Survived
hierarchical_section_title: Sinking of the RMS Lusitania / Final voyage / Notable passengers / Survived
caption_attribution_description: English: Rita Jolivet, British actress. Front page of The Sketch, a British illustrated newspaper weekly, May 12, 1915.
context_page_description: The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20, took on a heavy starboard list, and sank in 18 minutes. The vessel went down 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,198 and leaving 761 survivors. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, contributed to the American entry into World War I and became an iconic symbol in military recruiting campaigns of why the war was being fought.
  Lusitania fell victim to torpedo attack relatively early in the First World War, before tactics for evading submarines were properly implemented or understood. The contemporary investigations in both the United Kingdom and the United States into the precise causes of the ship's loss were obstructed by the needs of wartime secrecy and a propaganda campaign to ensure all blame fell upon Germany.
context_section_description: Crew
  William Thomas Turner, 59, Captain of the RMS Lusitania
  Passengers
  Oliver Percy Bernard, scenic designer whose sketches of the sinking were published in The Illustrated London News
  Josephine Brandell, actress and singer
  Avis Dolphin, 12-year-old friend of Ian Holbourn, who inspired his bestselling children's book, The Child of the Moat, A Story for Girls, 1557 A.D. (1916)
  Ogden H. Hammond of Louisville, Kentucky, politician and future United States Ambassador to Spain
  Charles T. Jeffery, automobile manufacturer who became head of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company after his father's death
  Rita Jolivet, French-American stage and screen actress
  Ian Holbourn, 42, Oxford professor and writer
  Margaret Haig Thomas, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, 31, British suffragist and daughter of Viscount Rhondda
  Sir Frederick Orr-Lewis, 55, 1st Baronet and Canadian businessman
  Theodate Pope Riddle, 48, American architect and philanthropist
  D. A. Thomas, 60, British former MP
  Scott Turner, 34, mining engineer
  Gwynn Parry Jones, world-famous Welsh tenor, one of the 16 soloists of Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music.
caption: Rita Jolivet
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