The American owner of the wreck of the Lusitania has gifted it to a local group in Cork and hopes his bequest will help them create a “living museum” to the tragedy.

One of the telegraph machines from the Lusitania has been recovered from the ocean floor off the Cork coast.

THE Government’s reluctance to grant the owner of the Lusitania a licence to explore the wreck cost the taxpayer at least €340,000.

DIVERS exploring the wreck of the Lusitania have recovered thousands of what appear to be Remington .303 bullets of the kind used by troops in the first world war.