Welcome to The Lusitania Resource!
Here you will find facts and history about the British passenger ship RMS Lusitania, her sinking, well as the biographies of passenger and crew on board when the German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank her on 7 May 1915.
2023 – 20 Years of The Lusitania Resource!
This year marks the 20th year of The Lusitania Resource‘s presence on the internet! I really want to thank of you visitors, contributors, and researchers who have allowed this site to grow in the last twenty years into an online encyclopedia that has far exceeded my own expectations.
As I run this site as a hobby and still have to maintain a day job, I hope you can forgive me for the (sadly) very, very sporadic updates and corrections to the site. Again, I couldn’t have done this without all of you, and I’m incredibly grateful for your continued support.
Please, let us continue to honor the RMS Lusitania and her passengers and crew, and may we never forget the horrific lessons of war. Thank you.
Old Head Lusitania Museum & Signal Tower is looking for your help!
The Lusitania Museum/Old Head Signal Tower group of Kinsale, Ireland, the new owners of RMS Lusitania, are at an advanced stage in the design process of their planned state-of-the-art museum. The late Mr. Gregg Bemis gifted the wreck to Lusitania Museum/Old Head Signal Tower Heritage CLG in 2019 in recognition of the achievements of the work of this local community voluntary group and to continue his legacy. You can watch the YouTube video and visit the link to the GoFundMe page below.
Fast Facts
The RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915, becoming a casualty of World War I. 128 American civilians died in the attack, turning American opinion against Germany, making the sinking a turning point of the war. However, the United States would not declare war on Germany and enter World War I until April 1917.
- Date attacked: 7 May 1915
- Duration of sinking: 18 minutes
- People aboard: 1,960*
- Survivors: 767* (4 died in subsequent months)
- Victims: 1,193 (per this site) + 4 survivors who died soon thereafter = 1,197*
- Americans killed: 128* (officially)
- Passenger ship carrying war materiel for the British Army when she was attacked and sunk
- Wreck location: 51°25′N 8°33′W, ~300 feet (91 meters) underwater, ~11 miles (18 km) south of the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland
*Numbers for passengers and crew subject to revision as names are cross-checked and confirmed by family members and researchers.
Other fast facts:
- Gross tonnage: 31,550
- Length overall: 787 feet / 239.8 meters
- Beam: 87 feet 6 inches / 26.7 meters
- Draft: 33 feet 6 inches / 10.2 meters
- Top speed: 26.35 knots
Read more at “Lusitania Facts and Figures“
Sticky Posts
#LusitaniaRemembered continues in #Kinsale #Liverpool #Lusitania100 #Lusitania @MerseyMaritime9 May 2015The sinking of the RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915 was not the end of the story. The survivors, after disembarking from their rescue vessels, were taken in by an unprepared but unreservedly generous […]1 Comment
#Lusitania Centennial #OnThisday: #Lusitania100 years #LusitaniaRemembered #Cobh #Kinsale #Lusitania100Cork #Cork8 May 2015Lusitania flowers at the wreck site, presented by Richard Woods (son of Nancy Wickings-Smith) Friday, 7 May 1915: The RMS Lusitania is torpedoed by the German submarine U-20 at 2:10 pm and sinks to […]9 Comments
#Lusitania100 commemoration in #Cork and #Cobh #CommodoreHotel #Lusitania #Lusitania100Cork @UCCHistory7 May 2015Wednesday, 6 May 2015 – 100 years later: All day today at University College Cork, the alma mater of Lusitania surgeon Dr. James McDermott, was the Lusitania lecture series that took place at […]3 Comments
Did #Gallipoli sink the #Lusitania or a #conspiracy? The 9/11 of its day #Lusitania100 #Gallipoli100 #WW1 #WWI1001 May 2015Lusitania in New York. Alexei Monreal collection. Perhaps it is fitting that this website’s 100th post should fall on the 100th anniversary of the Lusitania‘s last voyage. One hundred […]2 Comments
#Lusitania’s #ArmenianGenocide connection #Lusitania100 #ArmenianGenocide100 #191525 April 2015Armenian majorities in the Ottoman Empire are shown in teal in the center of the map. From Wikimedia Commons. 24 April 2015 marks the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, where an estimated 800,000 […]No Comments
Lusitania Passengers and Crew
Final Crossing (#202), departing New York City on 1 May 1915
- Saloon (1st Class) Passenger List (291 total, 113 saved, 177 lost, 1 did not sail)
- 2nd Cabin (2nd Class) Passenger List (601 total, 229 saved, 372 lost)
- 3rd Class Passenger List (373 total, 134 saved, 239 lost)
- Deck Crew List (78 total, 41 saved, 37 lost)
- Victualling Crew List (306 total, 139 saved, 167 lost)
- Engineering Crew List (313 total, 112 saved, 201 lost)
- Band (5 total, 3 saved, 2 lost)
- Stowaways (3 total, 3 lost)
- Cameronia Transfers
Read more at “People“
From the Lusitania Blog…
65th #AndreaDoria sinking anniversary #SSAndreaDora25 July 2021Today marks the 65th anniversary of the sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria, and D/V Tenacious is livestreaming a commemoration of the sinking over Facebook that you can watch embedded here. […]No Comments
115th #Lusitania launch anniversary #RMSLusitania8 June 2021On this day 115 years ago, 7 June 1907, the RMS Lusitania left her slip at John Brown and Co., Clydebank, Scotland, to be outfitted to become the revolutionary, luxurious, historical, and tragic ship […]No Comments
Virtual commemorations for #Lusitania sinking anniversary 106 #RMSLusitania8 May 2021Today, 7 May 2021, we remember the lives of those lost on this day 106 years ago when the German submarine U-20 torpedoed the RMS Lusitania off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. Almost 1,200 lives […]No Comments
#Lusitania Museum Fundraiser TODAY 7 pm GMT, 3 pm EDT (18 April 2021) #RMSLusitania #LusitaniaMuseum18 April 2021Lusitania Museum Greetings friends! TODAY (18 April 2021) at 7 pm Greenwich Mean Time, 3 pm Eastern Daylight Time, and noon Pacific Daylight Time there is a fundraiser for the Lusitania Museum, and […]No Comments
Remembering Gregg Bemis #GreggBemis #Lusitania #RMSLusitania29 June 2020Gregg Bemis steering out to the Lusitania wreck site in 2015. Photo courtesy Stuart Williamson. On 21 May 2020, Gregg Bemis, the owner of the Lusitania wreck, passed away at age 91 in Santa Fe, New […]2 Comments
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Dedication
This site is dedicated to the RMS Lusitania
and all those who built and those who sailed on her.
