Sinking: Add U-20's journey
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| ''Lusitania'' sank in only 18 minutes, at a distance of {{convert|11.5|nmi|km|0}} off the Old Head of Kinsale. Despite being relatively close to shore, it took several hours for help to arrive from the Irish coast. By the time help arrived, however, many in the {{convert|52|°F|°C|abbr=on}} water had succumbed to the cold. By the days' end, 767 passengers and crew from ''Lusitania'' had been rescued and landed at Queenstown, though 4 died shortly after. The final death toll for the disaster came to a catastrophic number. Of the 1,960 aboard ''Lusitania'' at the time of her sinking, 1,197 had been lost, including 94 children and 124 Americans (though the official toll at the time gave slightly different numbers).<ref name=LusiInfoStat/> In the days following the disaster, the Cunard line offered local fishermen and sea merchants a cash reward for the bodies floating all throughout the Irish Sea, some floating as far away as the [[Wales|Welsh]] coast. Only 289 bodies were recovered, 65 of which were never identified. The bodies of many of the victims were buried at either Queenstown, where 148 bodies were interred in the Old Church Cemetery,<ref>Molony, p. 123</ref> or the [[Church of St Multose]] in [[Kinsale]], but the bodies of the remaining 885 victims were never recovered. | ''Lusitania'' sank in only 18 minutes, at a distance of {{convert|11.5|nmi|km|0}} off the Old Head of Kinsale. Despite being relatively close to shore, it took several hours for help to arrive from the Irish coast. By the time help arrived, however, many in the {{convert|52|°F|°C|abbr=on}} water had succumbed to the cold. By the days' end, 767 passengers and crew from ''Lusitania'' had been rescued and landed at Queenstown, though 4 died shortly after. The final death toll for the disaster came to a catastrophic number. Of the 1,960 aboard ''Lusitania'' at the time of her sinking, 1,197 had been lost, including 94 children and 124 Americans (though the official toll at the time gave slightly different numbers).<ref name=LusiInfoStat/> In the days following the disaster, the Cunard line offered local fishermen and sea merchants a cash reward for the bodies floating all throughout the Irish Sea, some floating as far away as the [[Wales|Welsh]] coast. Only 289 bodies were recovered, 65 of which were never identified. The bodies of many of the victims were buried at either Queenstown, where 148 bodies were interred in the Old Church Cemetery,<ref>Molony, p. 123</ref> or the [[Church of St Multose]] in [[Kinsale]], but the bodies of the remaining 885 victims were never recovered. |
| One story—an urban legend—states that when Lieutenant Schwieger of ''U-20'' gave the order to fire, his quartermaster, Charles Voegele, would not take part in an attack on women and children, and refused to pass on the order to the torpedo room – a decision for which he was [[court-martial]]ed and imprisoned at [[Kiel]] until the end of the war.<ref>Des Hickey and Gus Smith, ''Seven Days to Disaster: The Sinking of the Lusitania'', 1981, William Collins, {{ISBN|0-00-216882-0}}</ref> This rumour persisted from 1972, when the French daily paper ''[[Le Monde]]'' published a letter to the editor.<ref>Bernd Langensiepen: ''Die Legende von Karl Vögeles "Meuterei" auf U 20.'' In: Marine-Nachrichtenblatt. Das Veröffentlichungsblatt des Arbeitskreises Krieg zur See 1914–18. 3/2012 № 8 pp. 55–60.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dubm.de/en/the-lusitania-case/|title = The Lusitania Case}}</ref> Despite seemingly putting an end to this rumor, Voegele's alleged hesitation was depicted in the torpedoing scene of the 2007 docudrama ''[[Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea]]''. | One story—an urban legend—states that when Lieutenant Schwieger of ''U-20'' gave the order to fire, his quartermaster, Charles Voegele, would not take part in an attack on women and children, and refused to pass on the order to the torpedo room – a decision for which he was [[court-martial]]ed and imprisoned at [[Kiel]] until the end of the war.<ref>Des Hickey and Gus Smith, ''Seven Days to Disaster: The Sinking of the Lusitania'', 1981, William Collins, {{ISBN|0-00-216882-0}}</ref> This rumour persisted from 1972, when the French daily paper ''[[Le Monde]]'' published a letter to the editor.<ref>Bernd Langensiepen: ''Die Legende von Karl Vögeles "Meuterei" auf U 20.'' In: Marine-Nachrichtenblatt. Das Veröffentlichungsblatt des Arbeitskreises Krieg zur See 1914–18. 3/2012 № 8 pp. 55–60.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dubm.de/en/the-lusitania-case/|title = The Lusitania Case}}</ref> Despite seemingly putting an end to this rumor, Voegele's alleged hesitation was depicted in the torpedoing scene of the 2007 docudrama ''[[Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea]]''. The real ''U-20'' left the scene, attempted to torpedo an American tanker SS Narragansett (the torpedo missed), proceeded North up the west coast of Ireland, and proceeded to Wilhelmshaven. |
| ===Notable passengers=== | ===Notable passengers=== |
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