Month: May 2013

Today, 22 May, marks the 10th “launch” anniversary of The Lusitania Resource! Why do I say it’s a “launch” anniversary? Because at the time, this website was being hosted as a small, personal site on bytenet.net. It did not yet have its own domain name and was not nearly as fleshed out as what you see …

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The 10th anniversary of this website is coming tomorrow! I’m not quite sure what I’ll have ready for then, but until then, new biographies today at The Lusitania Resource: James Shineman (second cabin) Margaret Shineman (second cabin) Updated biographies Catherine Henry (third class) James Houghton (saloon) New pictures Albert Bestic (deck crew) Isaac Lehman (saloon) Robert Rankin (saloon) Also, part 4 …

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Part 3 of the SS United States documentary and the fight to save her: New biographies: Joseph Macky, second cabin Mary Macky, second cabin Updated biographies Annie Gardner, second cabin James Gardner, second cabin

The supplementary cargo manifest, dated 5 May 1915, is up! Courtesy Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Archive and Lusitania Online. Part 2 of SS United States: Made in America: New biographies: Florence Wallace Watson (saloon) Katherine Watson (saloon) Thomas Henry Williams (saloon) Updated biographies: Alexander Hubert Buxton Ferrier (second cabin) Beata Elizabeth Stevens Ferrier (second cabin)