Mrs. Hubert Isaacs Owens (Cecelia “Cissie” Mildred Smith)

…ld well-wishers, “they’re coming on another boat.” As Helen continued to wait for her parents and sister who would never come, she regaled the symapthetic crowds with stories of submarines and how she had often seen them in moving pictures. Back in Ellwood City, when Cecelia’s husband Hubert heard news of the sinking, he was sick and almost speechless with dread. He went home early from the steel mill that day. Later life Through late 1915, Ceceli…

Master Thomas William Docherty

…was difficult to stand on the slanting deck, and I scrambled to a safer position between the two forward funnels. By this time scores were at the boats and a few jumping into the sea. Mabel carried baby William in her left arm and hauled herself up to the boat deck on a slippery, swinging rope. She had forgotten her fear in that moment. When she reached the starboard lifeboats, an officer told her, “There is no need to hurry, madam. Stay where you…

Mr. Frank Bowden Holman, Third Waiter

…rying a pocket watch when a torpedo struck the Lusitania just south of Ireland on 7 May 1915. The watch stopped at 2:29 pm, when the ship sank from underneath Holman, and he landed in the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Holman was in the water for five hours before he was rescued. When he was in the water, he found a young boy and Holman swam to him and placed the boy on Holman’s back, with the boy’s arms clasped around Holman’s neck. Unfortuna…

Mr. Albert Jackson Byington

…lifeboats and row away before shooting their torpedo. There was no opportunity for anything to happen to the submarine if she were delayed. It shows that they didn’t care a rap about the loss of life in their murderous work.” Mr. Byington jumped into a lifeboat which was filled with so many passengers that the ropes broke. As the boat fell into the water it capsized, and hearly all in it were drowned. Mr. Byington, who had a life preserver, swam t…

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