History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…hirza Winter, until they were afraid to take on more for fear of swamping. Their collapsible was picked up by Juno. Aboard Juno, she met sailor Percy Hanson, whom she later married. In Preston, she is erroneously named “Olive Hanson” before her Lusitania rescue. References: Hoehling, A.A. and Mary Hoehling. The Last Voyage of the Lusitania. Madison Books, 1956. Preston, Diana. Lusitania : An Epic Tragedy. Berkley Books, 2002. Share this: Print Ema…
…usitania disaster and shared a damaged collapsible with 33 other survivors, including Archie Donald, George Bilbrough, Angela Pappadopoulo, and Olive North. Thirza sustained gashes to her head and back from the wreck and was thinly clad, but continued to give artificial respiration to others and saved several lives. Archie Donald believed her to be the bravest woman he had ever seen. Their collapsible was picked up by Juno. Thirza was taken to the…
…y called for her husband, “Oh Monty.” Brooks got up and ran between the second and third funnels to find Montagu and Chastina lying on the deck on the starboard side. Then came “a slight second shock” that enveloped him in steam. He felt that he was going to suffocate. When the steam cleared, the Grants were gone. Both Montagu and Chastina Grant were lost in the Lusitania sinking. Montagu’s body was recovered as of Thursday, 20 May 1915, as #230….
…h and Doris Charles, Ernest Cowper, Maude Thompson, James Leary, Virginia Loney, Ogden Hammond, Daniel Moore, Herbert Colebrook and Percy Rogers. Charles had two children, a son named John Rhodes Sturdy and a daughter named Rhodafred Ellen Sturdy. Charles Sturdy died in 1937, at age 60, after suffering a heart attack while lawn bowling. Contributors Paul Latimer Michael Poirier Kate Sturdy (great-granddaughter of Charles Sturdy) Share this: Print…
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