History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…n, and playwright Justus Miles Forman. Frohman was on deck with George Vernon and Captain Alick Scott when the German submarine U-20 torpedoed Lusitania on 7 May 1915. Rita Jolivet soon ran up from below decks to join them. They stood together as the ship sank. Only Rita survived the disaster. Frohman’s body was recovered, #24, and was buried in Queens, New York. The following biography has been revised and improved with help from Peter Scott. Con…
…ientific School at Yale (as did fellow Lusitania passengers Elbridge Thompson and Clinton Bernard), where he took the Select Course, and was a member of Delta Psi. On 30 April 1890, during Ogden’s freshman year at Yale, General John Hammond fell ill and died in St. Paul. The Hammond estate at that time was valued at over half a million dollars. After Ogden’s graduation from Yale in 1893, he moved to Superior where his mother was living and entered…
…ld be torpedoed. On the night of 6 May, Marion Holbourn had a similar premonition in what she called a “waking vision” of the Lusitania being torpedoed before she went to bed. On board, Ian stayed in cabin C 10. Second cabin was overbooked and meals had to be taken in two sittings, with several tables put in the hallways. Realizing that the Lusitania would be sailing into the war zone, Ian thought it important that passengers know proper evacuat…
…born on 15 June 1912 in Derby, Connecticut, United States to Rowland Anderson and Emily Mary Anderson, née Pybus. Rowland and Emily were from neighboring towns in England. Rowland came from a large family and had 6 siblings, Alfred, Percy, Grace, Frank, Annie, and Edith. Rowland Anderson emigrated to the United States on 20 May 1910 aboard Carmania. His original destination was Providence, Rhode Island, where is brother Percy lived, but Rowland…
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