History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
On 21 May 2020, Gregg Bemis, the owner of the Lusitania wreck, passed away at age 91 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. He was due to celebrate his 92nd birthday the following week. His ship, the Lusitania was torpedoed by the German submarine U-20 in 1915, resulting in the deaths of almost 1,200 …
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Profuse apologize for the long absence (the reasons for which would be another long post in itself, but that’s not what this post is for), but the Lusitania anniversary is upon us once again. Thanks to Janet Hereward (from the family of survivor Herbert Ehrhardt) for passing along the following information: A Lusitania Memorial Garden …
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Lusitania 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 the bottom of the sea at 2:28 pm, off the south coast of Ireland. Of the estimated 1,962 passengers and crew …
Wednesday, 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 the Boole I Theater. One of The Lusitania Resource‘s own administrators and contributors, historian Peter Kelly, presented a selection of stories of …
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