1915 Sinking of the SS Lusitania 55mm iron medal BHM 4118 E1941Ab

British cast copy of the medal by Karl Goetz

Obv: SS Lusitania sinking in heavy seas, in five lines in exergue, DER GROSSDAMPFER / LUSITANIA / DURCH EIN DEUTSCHES / TAUCHBOOT VERSENKT / 5 MAI 1915 (the Lusitania sunk by a German submarine)

Rev: GESCHAFT UBER ALLES (business above all), a skeleton (as Death) standing left within ticket booth marked CUNARD (owners of the ship) above and to right, and FAHRKARTEN/AUSGABE (ticket office) below, to left, queue of passangers, one of whom reads a newspaper with the headline U/BOO[T]/GEFAH[R]