History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…aboard Lusitania. When the First World War broke out, James enlisted early on and was wounded in the Battle of Ypres in November 1914. By May 1915, James was returning to the front, and Ruth and Robert were traveling to Ayr, closer to James, to where they would stay out the remainder of the war. Ruth’s account of the sinking begins on a staircase where, at the moment of the torpedoing, she was making her way to the open deck with Robert walking ah…
…icket aboard the Lusitania‘s final crossing. Nina was born around 1880 in London, England, the daughter of John George Nadin and Nina Hart Nadin. She married Hedley Leopold Holland in Philadelphia in 1911. Holland was born around 1872 in Ireland. Nina was a secretary at Farm to Consumer, Inc. At the time of the Lusitania disaster, Nina was pregnant. She survived the torpedoing and sinking of the Lusitania on 7 May 1915 and carried out the full ter…
…Margaret to a constable. The constable recognized the likeness and passed it on to another woman who was present. The woman declared that she had seen a body that corresponded to Margaret’s. Five other people at different times and places also confirmed seeing Margaret’s body. Two fishermen claimed that she was the first body that they had recovered from the water. However, her body was interred the day before Gardiner and Chambers arrived, and n…
…for Ronald. Ellis arranged for a second cabin steward to look out for his son on his upcoming passage aboard Lusitania. The day of departure from New York, 1 May, Ellis was unable to go aboard Lusitania, so his son said goodbye to him on the pier. Ronald had told his father, “Well, never mind, dad, I’ll go aboard alone and find the steward.” When Ronald reached the top of the gangplank, he stopped, turned around, and called back an affectionate “G…
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