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From what I can recall on her last voyage the Lusitania carried some war materials aboard her. The officially listed ones were nonexplosive however. Let us assume she contains war materials that are not officially listed, namely high explosives. She most likely did not OTL but let us say that she did here. Let further say that a loading accident causes some of this to detonate and the explosion kills American Citizens in New York Harbor.