THE community in Liverpool will mark the centenary of the RMS Lusitania disaster today with a minute’s silence.
At 14.10, the time the passenger ship was hit by a German torpedo, the gathered crowds will fall silent to remember the 1,200 passengers who perished in the attack.
The Lusitania sank on May 7, 1915, off the coast of Kinsale in Co. Cork after being attacked by a torpedo from a German submarine during World War I.
She had left New York six days earlier, and was aiming for Liverpool, when the torpedo hit.
1,198 people perished on board the ship, which was the largest passenger liner in the world at the time – with 761 rescued.
