History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…he box for $5 Canadian dollars at a flea market. Can anyone give me more information. Is he the same person who was assistant purser and hero on the Lusitania? Thank you. Colin Jones This sounds very much to me as the same man. William Herbert Harkness was my grandfather he sailed some 3 to 4 times around the world with Cunard on a variety of ships. I would be good to see a photograph of the box and inscription. I will try and find a reference to…
RMS Aquitania Design and Construction The Ship Beautiful First War Service Transatlantic Heyday Irrepressible Reprieve and Glory Swan Song Aquitania Specifications RMS Aquitania, mislabeled as a White Star Ship when she was a Cunard Liner. Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection (Library of Congress). Library of Congress Control Number 2016806680 Aquitania was the third of the Cunard Line’s trio of express ocean liners before the First…
…her Lloyd’s Bremen in July 1929. By 1909 customers wanted ports closer to London than Liverpool. Thus Fishguard, Wales became a port of call for transatlantic ocean liners. On 30 August 1909, Mauretania became the first Cunarder to use the new port. Captain John T. Pritchard retired at the end of 1909 and Captain William Thomas Turner became Mauretania’s new captain. Mauretania between 1907-1910. Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection (…
…elocated to Paterson, New Jersey, United States, which has a close connection with Macclesfield through the silk industry. Lusitania When the Lusitania was torpedoed on 7 May, Evelyn and Agnes were having lunch in the second cabin dining saloon. Evelyn remembered that she and her sister had “hesistated in our seats about three minutes,” and by the time they finally moved, the crowd from the dining room was already at the stairs. Seeing that ther…
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