Yes, out of the 1,960 passengers and crew on board the RMS Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1915, there were 763 survivors. Because the ship sank in just 18 minutes, the evacuation was chaotic, and only about 39% of those on board made it to safety. Notable survivors included scenic designer Oliver Percy Bernard, Canadian businessman Sir Frederick Orr-Lewis, and the famous British suffragist Margaret Mackworth. The high-value tragedy of the Lusitania is that it was a civilian liner, and the loss of nearly 1,200 lives—including 128 Americans—played a critical role in shifting global public opinion against Germany during World War I. For historians, the stories of the survivors provide a harrowing account of the speed and brutality of early 20th-century submarine warfare. While the Titanic is more famous for its iceberg, the Lusitania's survivors bore witness to a "man-made" disaster that changed the course of military history and international maritime law regarding the protection of non-combatant vessels.