Reprieve and Glory

…e no survivors from the Sydney. Aquitania served eight years under the British Armed Forces, employed on the Atlantic for the remainder of the war.   She steamed more than 500,000 miles and carried nearly 400,000 soldiers to and from all corners of the globe. Share this: Print Email Pinterest…

Waiting for Rescue

…up people from the lifeboats.  Soon after came the Stormcock, captained by Commander O’Shee, who demanded that the survivors be transferred to his ship.  The captains of the smaller boats protested, saying that the survivors had been through enough, but O’Shee threatened to blow the smaller vessels out of the water if the smaller boats did not comply.  The survivors, who had already been taken from the lifeboats, transferred once again to the larg…

Victualling Crew List

…(and not RISTON) Thank you Graham Ritson Dražen Torbarina CARNIVAL HOUSE 100 HARBOUR PARADE SOUTHAMPTON – HAMPSHIRE SO15 1ST GREAT BRITAIN REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE: I, DRAŽEN TORBARINA, BORN 21.09.1978 IN SUKOŠAN, REGION DALMACIA AND REPUBLIC CROATIA HOPE THAT YOU CAN HELP ME. MY GRANDGRANDFATHER, PETAR-LUIGI TORBARINA, BORN 21.08.1869 IN SUKOŠAN WORKED IN YOUR SHIPYARD ˝CUNARD-LINE˝. MY GRANDFATHER, MIROSLAV TORBARINA, BORN 01.04.1906 IN SUKOŠAN,M…

Ren-Horng James Wang

…do. I have been a proud member of the Titanic International Society since 2003. When not running rmslusitania.info, I have dedicated much my time to nonprofit organizations. During the summer of 2004 I biked across the United States for Habitat for Humanity in a program called Bike and Build.  We started in Providence, Rhode Island, on the Atlantic Coast, and finished in Seattle, Washington, on the Pacific shores, 3800+ miles (about 6150 km) and 9…

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