http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97350149
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1098904/Secret-Lusitania-Arms-challenges-Allied-claims-solely-passenger-ship.html

For a while there has been controversy over the Lusitania. Did it in fact have arms meant to be used against the Germans in World War I that would justify the Germans destroying the ship? Well, yes. According the article the video of the dive shows mounds of ammunition in .303 caliber, used by the Brits, shipped from the US.

Treason.

Yeah, so I've read. I thought I'd read a few years ago, that the Lussy had been checked & it didn't have the weapons as cargo?

Was this by government?
The guy who is diving it now had to take it to court just to dive it. He only recently won.

Btw, the title was meant to say Discovered instead of Recovered.

Thanks for the link, I guess now we know.

but the US wasnt going to go to war over her sinking anyway right?

wasnt it the zimmermann telegram that really sparked it?

though i reckon if the purpose of the lusitania was to transport munitions, the germans sunk it without knowing that it was hostile. it could have very well been a merchant ship carrying bananas or something

It was a whole range of things, however, if the US was in fact responsible for the rounds of ammunition on board the Lusitania they made the decision to intervene in WWI the minute they decided to begin supplying one side or another.

As for the Germans they knew. They knew pretty much everything that you could know about that ship and wrote a statement to the United States pointing out that it had Ammo on. That's why the controversy over if it had Ammo exists in the first place.

Whether or not it had ammo, or if it caused the war it certainly was used to recruit gullible citizens in the US and in the Isles.