Supplementary Cargo Manifest, SS United States part 2, and new biographies

…The supplementary cargo manifest, dated 5 May 1915, is up! Courtesy Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Archive and Lusitania Online. Part 2 of SS United States: Made in America: New biographies: Florence Wallace Watson (saloon) Katherine Watson (saloon) Thomas Henry Williams (saloon) Updated biographies: Alexander Hubert Buxton Ferrier (second cabin) Beata Elizabeth Stevens Ferrier (second cabin)   Share this: Print Email Pinterest…

Miss Sarah McLellan

…e’s name was Mary Smith which was Nicholas’s parents. Mary Smith died in 1903 and my grandfather remarried Elizabeth Edgar in 1909. I know that Nicholas sister Maggie Jane Boyle immigrated to America. I do hope this is helpful in your search. Kind regards Winn Adele eccles My Mother’s grandmother Mary Agnes Boyle (smith) was sister of Nicholas Boyle who died on the Lusitania. Winn Forsyth Hello Adele.I have researched the Boyle family’s history ba…

Mr. John Anderson, Able-Bodied Seaman

…er available. I have just received more information in the moments it took for me to read through your webpage than over the past 20 years. I am now retired (US Navy Hospital Corpsman) after 22 years and have wanted to renew my search. My largest problem is that the name John Anderson is such a common name. My grandfather was named after my 3rd great uncle and I was named after my grandfather. Is there any additional information (documents, citati…

Lifeboats

…ith capacities varying from 20 to 40 each. Lusitania also carried nearly 3,000 life preservers on board. According to the New York Times, Tuesday, 11 May 1915, “The life-saving apparatus is examined before every voyage in Liverpool by the Board of Trade officials when the boats are lowered into the water and the life jackets placed on deck for inspection.” A number of lifeboats upset while lowering, some lifeboats were never launched, and many sur…

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