"Kapitänleutnant Walter Schwieger was the thirty-year-old commander of the submarine U-20 that sank the Lusitania. His war diary describes the attack and the rapid sinking of the great liner as he viewed it through his periscope."
Online diary excerpts are provided by the National Archives.
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"United States District Court, Southern District of New York.- In the matter of the petition of the Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd., as owner of the steamship LUSITANIA, for limnitation of its liability."
Book Sources: Sinking of the Lusitania
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Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of August 16, 1921, report of the secretary of state concerning American passengers on the Lusitania when sunk ...
From HathiTrust Digital Library
Report of a formal investigation into the circumstances attending the foundering on 7th May, 1915, of the British steamship "Lusitania," of Liverpool, after being torpedoed off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland...
From HathiTrust Digital Library
Being a narrative of the torpedoing and sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by a German submarine off the Irish coast May 7, 1915, by Charles E. Lauriat, jr., one of the survivors.
Also online from HathiTrust Digital Library
President Wilson's notes on the Lusitania and Germany's reply; diplomatic correspondence between Germany, England and the United States on events preceding, ... a complete official record.
From HathiTrust Digital Library
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