When the German captain sent a torpedo into the unsuspecting ship, it sank and over eleven hundred people lost their lives. This tragedy helped galvanize American opinion to enter the war against Germany.
The principal keeper of the lighthouse reported the sinking of the Lusitania to the admiral in charge at Queenstown (Cobh), who mobilized rescue boats to save as many as possible.
Today, you can see in casement square of Cobh a memorial to the Lusitania's victims, many of whom are buried at the old church cemetery in Kinsale.
The liner lies in the sea about twelve miles south of the lighthouse in 320 feet of water.
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