Supplementary Cargo Manifest, SS United States part 2, and new biographies
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)
SS United States, revisiting Lusitania wreck, and new pages
The SS United States needs our help! The SS United States Conservancy has done a great job of raising funds to keep this ship, but they’re only 1/5 of the way there. The SSUS is one of the last great ocean liners still around today. Please, please, please don’t let her go to the scrapyards! …
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New pages 13 May 2013
There’s a few new pages for today. I have some reconstructions from the Mixed Claims Commission and others assembled from survivors’ accounts. As always, Italics indicates survivor: Henry George Burgess, Saloon David Louis Chabot, Saloon Michael Connolly, Third Class Robert Crooks, Saloon Audley Drake, Saloon Mary Hume, Second Cabin Elizabeth McKechan, Second Cabin James McKechan, …
