SS Lusitania
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History & heritageSimon's Town, South Africa

SS Lusitania

Offshore historical wreck dive site of passenger liner.

About

SS Lusitania was a Portuguese twin-screw ocean liner of 5,557 tons, built in 1906 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, and owned by Empresa Nacional de Navegação, of Lisbon. The ship was wrecked on Bellows Rock off Cape Point, South Africa at 24h00 on 18 April 1911 in fog while en route from Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique, with 25 first-class, 57 second-class and 121 third-class passengers, and 475 African labourers. Out of the 774 people on board, eight died when a life boat capsized.

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Location

Open map: SS Lusitania and 3 nearby attractions

-34.39000, 18.49417 · Simon's Town

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