History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…ool back in Peramos and engaged the services of P. D. Fotides a famous architect from Constantinople. The couple left Philadelphia on the 1st May and headed to New York and boarded the Lusitania. Caner Karakas Peramos is an ancient city in Cyzicos, Asia Minor.M.N. Pappadopoulos builted a school with an eminent architect from Constantinople Perikles Fotiadis.Now that building is in Kastro hill of Karsฤฐyaka (formerly Peramos) village in peninsula of…
…perintendent John Idwal Lewis. Also in attendance were William Ewart Gladstone Jones, since then promoted to chief electrical engineer aboard the Scythia; Alexander Duncan, since then promoted to chief officer of the Berengaria; and Albert Charles Dunn, since then promoted to chief engineer of the Bantria. They drank a silent toast to their shipmates who were lost in the Lusitania sinking. Contributors Jim Kalafus, USA Michael Poirier, USA Referen…
…g. Thomas and Thomas, Jr. did not. The Marshes and the Hooks were from England and had been living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where Annie was the housekeeper to the Hook Family. After the death of Mrs. Hook, they were all returning home to England. The Hooks were planning to travel in second cabin, but when George found out that the Marshes were traveling third class, George changed his family’s tickets so that the Hooks and Marshes could travel…
Minnie Smith, 28, was a British subject residing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, traveling third class aboard Lusitania. Minnie was married to Constable William Smith, and at the time of the Lusitania‘s last departure from New York on 1 May 1915, she was pregnant. Minnie and her unborn child were lost when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915. Her husband William commented, “Those dirty hounds murdered my…
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