History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…for the ship’s machinery. With the advent of the torpedo, the longitudinal compartments compounded the damage torpedoes made on the ship. The longitudinal compartments, unfortunately, caused the ship to list 7 degrees when one compartment was breached, 15 degrees when two were breached, and so on until the ship was in danger of capsizing or having water slosh over the top of the compartments until the ship’s buoyancy was compromised. The resulting…
…have been the end of them, except exploding boilers blew them all out in a cloud of soot and back into the surface of the water. Pierpoint was saved from the water and returned to Liverpool. As his mission had been a secret, journalists did not bother him about the sinking. For years he did not discuss his presence aboard Lusitania. A police strike in Liverpool in 1919 led to the dismissal of many members of the police force, but not Pierpoint. He…
…e loss of her husband. Related pages Thomas Bloomfield at the Mixed Claims Commission Contributors Cliff Barry Judith Tavares References Mixed Claims Commission, Docket No. 245. The Standard. Volume 76. Web. 9 August 2011. <http://books.google.com/books?id=fk3nAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA515&lpg=PA515&dq=thomas+bloomfield+lusitania&source=bl&ots=b9E9Z3pbyb&sig=xTENDNQFePFmi055UxhQetUdhbw&hl=en&ei=n4dBTozOL-aesQKh84TeCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved…
…n it were drowned. Mr. Byington, who had a life preserver, swam to another boat. This later capsized. Then he got into another boat and helped to row it ashore. Byington died around 1953 in São Paulo. His wife Pearl died 6 November 1963 in New York. Related pages Albert Byington at the Mixed Claims Commission Contributors: Michael Poirier Zachary Schwarz Judith Tavares Hildo Thiel References: “Attack Liner’s Handling: Passengers Ask Why She Didn’t…
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