Master Thomas Percy Richards
…aveling aboard Lusitania under a British passport. The Richards family was on its way to Cornwall during the last voyage of the Lusitania. Their cabin on board was D-80. On 7 May 1915, the torpedo impacted Lusitania while the Richards family was at lunch in the second class dining room. The family stayed there until the room was almost empty. Thomas retrieved lifebelts for himself, Phyllis, Cecil, and Percy, but could not find a lifebelt that woul…