#LusitaniaRemembered continues in #Kinsale #Liverpool #Lusitania100 #Lusitania @MerseyMaritime

…ng that Liverpool’s Merseyside Maritime Museum is now the home of the exhibition, Lusitania: Life, Loss, Legacy. I toured the exhibit with fellow Lusitania researcher Peter Kelly, curator Ellie Moffat, and Lusitania survivor descendant, Joe Wynne (not pictured). On a stroll outside, the Lusitania‘s propeller on the quay could not be missed. The previous day, at the 100th anniversary memorial, a crowd so large that it spilled over onto the next pie…

RMS Hesperian

…ve a crew list for this ships last voyage. I grandfather was reputed to be on it. He was John Maddox a steward Kenneth E.Jenkins Mr. Maddox Were you ever able to obtain a passenger list. My aunt was a passenger on the Hesperian with my grandmother and father. My aunt was listed as missing among the 32 passengers and crew. Ken Jenkins kim bendle My great great and maybe even another great grandmother was in the war and was on this ship “Hesperian”…

#Lusitania’s #ArmenianGenocide connection #Lusitania100 #ArmenianGenocide100 #1915

…ncroaching into neutral Persia’s territory. The news of the genocide in addition to the ongoing war must have compounded worries of people with family living in the Caucasus, spurring action among Chicago’s Persian community, for between the beginning of the genocide on 24 April and the departure of the Lusitania from New York on 1 May, only one week had elapsed. The third class passengers traveling to Armenia were Thomas Ohan Stephen, Alvaretz Yo…

#Lusitania anniversary 105 sinking commemoration videos online and updates #Lusitania105 #RMSLusitania

Lusitania panorama

…46024 With the world in lockdown mode and all of us being unable to gather on site in either Liverpool, England, or at the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, the Merseyside Maritime Museum and the Old Head of Kinsale Signal Tower have made their own videos to help us remember the Lusitania disaster and all those who were on board when the ship sank on 7 May 1915.  Merseyside Maritime Museum 2020 Memorial Service Old Head of Kinsale Lusitania Museum and

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