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Saloon Class Manifest Second Cabin Manifest Third Class Manifest Crew List Other Passenger
and Crew Items of Interest Lusitania Facts, Figures, and Firsts |
Scroll down for update status Welcome to The Lusitania Resource! Good Lusitania sites are hard to find and hopefully this will be a step in the right direction. Usually internet finds dealing with the Lusitania are only sideline pages in sites dealing mainly with the Titanic or other ships and ocean liners, but this site hopes to different. Mission
The aim of this site is not only to provide information on the Cunard steamship RMS Lusitania, but also to provide a starting point for biographical and genealogical research on the passengers and crew of the ship on the ocean liner's last and fateful voyage. Background
For those not familiar with the story of the Lusitania, she was a British passenger liner, carrying a number of Americans, torpedoed off the Irish coast by the German submarine U-20 during World War I. The sinking and subsequent deaths of several civilians is cited by many to be one of the first modern examples of "total war." The nature of the explosions that sank the ship and the politics surrounding her demise have never been satisfactorily explained and to this day remain shrouded in a cloud of mystery. Contrary to popular belief, the Lusitania disaster was not the proximate cause of the United States entering the First World War; however, the Lusitania is often credited for turning the then-neutral United States' opinion against Germany. Another repercussion of the sinking often overlooked is that Germany, fearing American wrath, restrained themselves in submarine warfare, which may have been Germany's best chance at winning the war. Yet, it was Germany's very resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917 that finally forced the United States to declare war. Contributions
The Lusitania Resource is an international collaborative effort from Lusitania and ocean liner researchers all over, and contributions to this site are always welcome. How do I
contribute? Philosophy As the editor I am an avid
supporter of having multiple sources in any instance of research.
Even though there are not very many Lusitania
sites on the web, I do not feel that this site needs to be the
be-all-end-all site on the Lusitania.
Even though I plan to continue to expand this site's content (whether
or not I will get beyond something as exhaustive as the biographies of
the Lusitania's passengers
and crew, we'll have to see), I whole-heartedly support
the developments of other Lusitania
websites, especially ones that may include whatever I have missed
here. Other
topics worthy for fellow Lusitania
fans to pick up, should they want to build their own Lusitania site, would be the
politics behind the sinking, virtual tours, the nature of the second
explosion, etc. Should you launch such another Lusitania site on the Internet,
let's do swap links =:).
Note about the passenger/crew list:
During the time of the Lusitania,
Cunard termed first class "saloon class" and termed second class
"second cabin"
on their ships. This site follows the nomenclature of the times
for
the passenger manifests, passenger lists, whatever you wish to call
them.
The site is optimized for screen resolution of 800x600 or greater. If the resolution is smaller, the crew lists will not display correctly. The list contains the names of four people who died soon after the disaster, one came on the official list of dead, but died later than the other three, so all four on the lists are saved.
Pertaining to couples and
families:
About E-mails Response is generally, if not extremely, slow.
I'm sorry, I'm just alternately lazy and busy. I know
there were a few of you that were trying to correspond with me and I
really would like to hear from you again, especially the relative of steward Walter Wilmin, whose name I missed before because it was misspelled on the list. My apologies.
About
Updates, January 2008:
Yes, I am alive.I spent a year in AmeriCorps*NCCC, mostly helping out with recovery efforts for hurricanes Katrina and Rita. My old computer also broke and I just got a new one last summer, therefore, I haven't been able to do much updating. Here's the kicker, now I'm off to join Up with People starting 11 January 2008, so I won't be able to update until mid-June at the earliest. Thank you to those of you who expressed interest in helping out with this site, as it needs it and I'm frequently in non-internet accessible places. I am aware that not everyone knows HTML, so I have some exciting news: I have plans to convert the site to (password-protected) wiki or blogger format sometime around September 2008. Hopefully, the new format will be much more democratic and allow for Lusitania scholars to update information instantly at a click of the keyboard and mouse, instead of filtering it all through me and hoping that it gets published within in the next five years.
Scrolling marquee, left to
right: Captain Turner, Marie Depage, Charles Frohman, Christopher
Garry, Mary Hammond, Ogden Hammond, William Hodges, Elsie Hook, Frank
Hook, George Hook, Alice Hubbard, Elbert Hubbard, Eunice Kinch, Sarah
Lund, William Mostoe-Kinch, Rita Jolivet, Gladys Bilicke.
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