Sinking of the Lusitania

There were many questions as to why the Lusitania sank, and why it only took one torpedo to sink it. One reason that it is believed it only took one torpdeo to sink it, was that people think there was small arms artillery on board, giving it just enough that it was something else to explode. The only explaination as to why the Lusitania only took 18 minutes to sink is that the torpdeo had an abnormally large explosion causing it to sink so fast. The sinking of the Lusitania resulted in 1153 passengers and crew members dying by drowning, and 128 of those people were Americans. This caused an uprising in America and Great Britain.