History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…is funeral would be held in a small, half-empty church on a rainy day, in London’s Brompton Oratory plans were set for “impressive last rights” (Hoehling/Hoehling, 220). A few recalled a passage from one of Maturin’s books, which perhaps prophetically, said such: It was a great victory of the human mind which annihilated space and time, and circled the globe with telegraph wires. But greater still is the victory which gives a man strength and cour…
…rrie Gray, his wife] hurried to the bedside of her stricken husband whose condition was precarious . . . James Paul Gray expended substantial amounts for surgical and medical attention and nursing made necessary by the injuries sustained by him in the wreck of the Lusitania, from which he suffered until his death on September 13th, 1922. (Mixed Claims summary) Carrie Gray was awarded $10,000.00 by the Mixed Claims Commission for the premature loss…
…minute transfers delayed the Lusitania’s departure by 2 ½ hours. The requisition of the Cameronia and the transfer of her passengers to the Lusitania not only added to the disaster’s death toll, but had the Lusitania not been delayed 2 ½ hours because of the transfer it would have been possible that the Lusitania and U-20 would have missed each other that fateful day on the Celtic Sea. Simpson’s book claims that 70 or so passengers and crew came o…
…chael Poirier. Born Frederic John Gauntlett 1 January 1870 Knightsbridge, London, England, United Kingdom Died 1951 (age 81) United States Age on Lusitania 45 Ticket number 46090 Cabin number B 30 Traveling with – Albert Hopkins (colleague) – Samuel Knox (colleague) Lifeboat Collapsible Rescued by – Wanderer (Peel 12) – Flying Fish Occupation Businessman (shipbuilder) Citizenship United States Residence Washington, D.C., United States Spouse(s) Fa…
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