History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…ldfowlers, who sold birds in the food markets of Birkenhead and Liverpool. On one occasion Thomas Evans and Leonard Brook were wildfowling when they spotted the number 9 river buoy which had broken loose from its mooring and they became famous for managing to salvage it. As a puntsman, he was also an excellent shot and once held the record for duck shooting on the Dee by bringing down 87 birds with three rounds. He regularly took Hugh Brocklebank…
…. Ellen Hogg in an interview published in The St. Helens Reporter in the edition of 11 May 1915, related: “At last we got away from it all and then we came across a boat in which were two men, one of whom was bailing the water out. Some of us got into the boat. I was the first to be put into it and the assistant purser got in with us. Blood and froth were pouring out of his mouth, and he told me he had gone under with the Lusitania and come up aga…
…d the decision of the Commission. This case is before the Umpire for decision on a certificate of the two National Commissioners[a] certifying their disagreement. John J. Coughlin, a naturalized American citizen, 39 years of age, and his entire family were passengers on the torpedoed Lusitania. This family consisted of a wife, Katherine, then 36 years of age, a daughter, Margaret, 3 years of age, and two sons, John and Jeremiah Bernard, whose ages…
…t, in Rugby. From being a small boy, it had always been Percy Hefford’s ambition to serve at sea – especially on the great trans-Atlantic liners and after basic education; he trained for a career as a deck officer in the Mercantile Marine. In early 1915, he was married to Elsie Maude Nevanas and they lived at 12 Aylesbury Road, New Brighton, Wallasey, Cheshire. This was across the River Mersey from Liverpool and allowed him easy access to Liverpoo…
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