On 1st May 1915, the luxury ocean liner Lusitania sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. But the Lusitania's captain, William Thomas Turner, had faith in the gentlemanly terms of warfare that had, for a century, kept civilian ships safe from attack. For this would be the ill-fated Lusitania's ...

On 1st May 1915, the luxury ocean liner Lusitania sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. But the Lusitania's captain, William Thomas Turner, had faith in the gentlemanly terms of warfare that had, for a century, kept civilian ships safe from attack. For this would be the ill-fated Lusitania's final crossing .