RMS Lusitania

As it seems the massive liner was doomed to infamy from the very beginning. At on Wednesday April 10, 1912 the R.M.S. Titanic started to depart from Southampton on its way to New York City. Just as titanic left port a dangerous suction started and pulled another ship the New York into a crash course with the immense ship and it wasn’t until the last possible minute that a huge surge of water pushed the New York out of harms way. Yet just as it seemed that disaster was averted another major…

Do you know what caused the Titanic disaster? I know what caused it- actually not a what, but a who caused it. I am getting the information from the book Exploring the Titanic. Here are two things and reasons why the Titanic ended up sinking. First, the captain probably assisted with the sinking. I bet he helped cause it for three reasons. First, on page 18, it says that he posted the first iceberg warning on the bulletin board and did nothing about it. Second, on the same page, it says they…

“Icebergs loomed up and fell astern and we never slackened. It was an anxious time with the Titanic's fateful experience very close in our minds.” (Captain Arthur H Rostron, Commander of the Carpathia). Taking place in the North Atlantic Ocean the sinking of the Titanic on April 14-15th, 1912 was a very terrifying day for Captain Edward J. Smith along with 2,200 passengers and crew. In the life boat, recalled Dorothy Gibson, “No one said a word. There was nothing to say and nothing we could…

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RCCL In 2013, RCCL doubled their operating margin from 5% in 2012 to 10%. Royal Carribean’s operating margin was driven by higher yield and occupancy, which shows a demand for the company’s cruises despite higher prices. Carnival Corporation’s operating margin is usually higher than RCCL’s, but there was a drop in occupancy and a fall in yield in 2013. Combined with higher unit costs, the Carnival Corporation’s operating margin dropped from 11% to 9% in 2013 (Overview: Royal Caribbean Cruises,…

re-elected president using the campaign slogan "He Kept Us Out of War". Britain was calling for the United States to get involved in the war. Events such as the sinking of the RMS Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram helped convince Woodrow Wilson, with the help of events such as the Zimmermann Telegram and the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. Eventually, on April, 6th 1917 the US Congress declared war on Germany.With a large number of German-Americans in the United States and many others with…

States’s joined the allied powers. There are many other reasons as to why the U.S. joined the allies, but the main rationale behind joining the war was to stop the unregulated submarine warfare. When Germany sunk the RMS Lusitania, that sent the United States into joining the war. The Lusitania was a British cruise liner carrying passengers and supplies from New York to Britain. The ship was carrying not only civilians, but also rifle cartridges and non-explosive shell casings. A German U-boat…

Germany’s use of U-boats during the first world war is a very interesting and important topic. The U-boat, or undersea boat, was a very valuable weapon, the possessor of this weapon could virtually rule the waters. After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States of America, persuaded Germany to cease unrestricted underwater warfare. By spring of 1917 Germany had resumed this unrestricted underwater warfare. Why was this path chosen? The U-boat was a…

When Japan struck the United States on its own soil in late 1941, there was an obvious reason the US to engage its enemies overseas; the first world war did not have a Pearl Harbor attack to wholeheartedly justify overseas involvement, there was a more subtle pulling of strings at work with Germany to blame for US entrance into the war. When the United States attempted to hold a voice of neutrality in the face of a raging European war, Germany did not cease its prodding at the trust of Woodrow…