There were actually multiple sunken cruisers in World War 2. These include the Abukuma sunk 26 October 1944 and the Admiral Scheer sunk 9 April 1945.
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∙ 2014-06-18 20:41:12The Germans attacked and sunk a cruise ship with U-boats (submarines) American passengers on that ship
The world's last all gun battleship (no cruise missiles), the Iowa class USS New Jersey was the world's only active battleship in 1968, and the only battleship to see action in the Vietnam War.
The first ship sunk was the 'Athena', but this did not start the war.....
Unless sunk for target practice (meaning there's no bodies in them); all sunken warships are WAR GRAVES! Diving in a sunken "warship" (battle sunk) is walking the grey line between "pleasure diving" and "grave robbing."
It was primarily due to the sinking of the Luistania, (sp?) a cruise ship carrying many Americans. A German U-Boat torpedoed it.
Athenia
Lusitania was the name of the sunken ship.
The British cruise liner Lusitania
they sank the cruise ship because the thought it was carying aminition.
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The Germans attacked and sunk a cruise ship with U-boats (submarines) American passengers on that ship
Between 20-25 knots.
Old Answer: Lusitania was the ship that was sunk in World War 1 on the 1st May 1915, but I don't know about World War 2. New Answer: The Athenia was sunk by the German's in 1939.
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The world's last all gun battleship (no cruise missiles), the Iowa class USS New Jersey was the world's only active battleship in 1968, and the only battleship to see action in the Vietnam War.
amrican deaths on the sunken ships
The (RMS) Lusitania.