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In 1906 the RMS Lusitania was at the forefront of transatlantic shipping and delivery. Briefly the greatest ship in the world, the designers and engineers who built the Lusitania directed on her behalf to stand for the height of luxury for travellers while also being the harbinger of a new technological age group, replete with groundbreaking engines that would allow the gigantic ship to go at speeds that would have been considered impossible just years before. Indeed the highly competitive industry would spur the development of bigger and better ocean liners in the approaching years, the most famous being the Titanic. The Lusitania and the Titanic would end up being the two most famous ships of the first 20th hundred years for tragic reasons, but the circumstances cannot have been more different. While the Titanic is still notorious for being the world's best ocean liner during its collision with an iceberg in 1912, the Lusitania's role as a popular ocean liner has been almost completely obscured by the type of its sinking with a German U-boat in 1915. The Germans directed to disrupt trade by the Allied makes, but they did not have the naval forces with the capacity of seizing merchant boats and detaining them. Furthermore the Germans rightly suspected that the Uk and Americans were using traveler liners and product owner boats to smuggle weaponry over the Atlantic, but since their lone edge in the Atlantic was their fleet of submarines, the Germans had no way of confirming their suspicions lacking sinking a ship and seeing in case a detonation onboard suggested the occurrence of munitions and gunpowder.
