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Dear all, It’s been a while since I updated the site, and I apologize profusely for the delay. Back in 2011 I had sketched an outline: “Lusitania 2015 Plan” of how far I wanted the website to be along, but life got busy and I fell rather short of those goals. I still plan to …

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Short, new #Lusitania biographies, in line with the goal to do more, smaller updates instead of trying to do big ones all the time: Margaret Ballantyne (second cabin) Catherine Irvine (stewardess) Harold Slight (third class) Italics indicate survivor.

Slow and small updates coming through. I’m working through the comments sections to address any new info that may come through. New biography: Patrick Moran, fireman Added stub pages on Richard Wareing (victim) and Thomas Evans (survivor).  

September 7th marks the 107th maiden voyage anniversary of the Lusitania, having departed Liverpool, England for New York City on that day in 1907. June 28th marks the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary that sparked the war, and July 28th marks the 100th anniversary of the actual declaration of …

Read moreLusitania Maiden Voyage @ 107, 100th World War I anniversary