Well the story is that large ships can be sunk with 1 torpedo whether ww1, ww2 or any other war. The lusitanias sinking was aided by open port holes, Tahio by poor damage control and similarly the Ark Royal. If the situation is right (or wrong if you are a sailor) then all ships can sink with semingly low damage. Britanic also sank under conditions it was meant to survive, a single mine or torpedo would not have been enough to founder the ship yet it did. Lusitania was built as a ship that could be converted to a armed cruiser, with money loaned from the goverment to cunard, so that in times of war the ships could be requisitioned.
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