At the outbreak of the First World War, the British Admiralty considered her for requisition as an armed merchant cruiser, and she was put on the official list of AMCs. When Lusitania was built, her construction and operating expenses were subsidized by the British government, with the provision that she could be converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser if need be. See also: U-boat Campaign (World War I) and RMS Lusitania The argument continues to the present day. Several attempts have been made over the years since the sinking to dive to the wreck seeking information about how the ship sank, and military ammunition has been discovered in the wreck. 303 calibre), almost 5,000 shrapnel shell casings (for a total of some 50 tons), and 3,240 brass percussion artillery fuses. Argument over whether the ship was a legitimate military target raged back and forth throughout the war, but after the war it was revealed that at the time of her sinking she was carrying over 4 million rounds of machine-gun ammunition (. The contemporary investigations in both the United Kingdom and the United States into the precise causes of the ship's loss were obstructed by the needs of wartime secrecy and a propaganda campaign to ensure all blame fell upon Germany. It also contributed to the American entry into the War two years later images of the stricken liner were used heavily in US propaganda and military recruiting campaigns. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany. : 429 761 people survived out of the 1,266 passengers and 696 crew aboard, and 123 of the casualties were American citizens. After the single torpedo struck, a second explosion occurred inside the ship, which then sank in only 18 minutes. The Cunard liner was attacked by U-20 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger. The passengers had been warned before departing New York of the danger of voyaging into the area in a British ship. The attack took place in the declared maritime war-zone around the UK, shortly after unrestricted submarine warfare against the ships of the United Kingdom had been announced by Germany following the Allied powers' implementation of a naval blockade against it and the other Central Powers. The RMS Lusitania was a UK-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on, about 11 miles (18 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. Class=notpageimage| Sinking of RMS Lusitania on a map of Ireland

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