Conway Mill Trust

May 7, 1915- Luisitania was sunk off the coast of Co Cork with the loss of 1,200 lives.  It had left New York on May 1 bound for Liverpool.  The German embassy had warned against Americans traveling on British ships and 118 Americans were among the dead when the ship sank after being hit by a German torpedo followed by a second explosion.  Historians believe the ship was carrying munitions which caused the second explosion.  The British denied this, but intercepted transmissions recovered from the German ship proved that the British lied to cover up the fact that their own munitions caused the second explosion.