History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…ter, Bistis tried to help Pappadopoulo to get into the lifeboat. They held on for a while and then disappeared. Leonidas’ brother went to Queenstown to look him but found no trace. Leonidas’ body was either never recovered or never identified. In Queenstown, Leonidas’ brother met a steward who witnessed Leonidas’ and Michael’s last moments. Transiting through London, Bistis’ brother and his friends offered to take care of the nervous Angela. Links…
…cyclopedia Titanica Lusitania Inquiry Project Wikipedia – RMS Lusitania Lusitania Online – The Lusitania Historical Society RMSLusitania.fr – a French site dedicated to the history of the Lusitania. Lusitania Controversy – multi-part article dealing with the controversies surrounding the loss of the ship. Judith’s Original Lusitania passenger manifest site Lusitania Graves Kinsale Regional Museum Die Versenkung der “Lusitania” am 7. Mai 1915 (Germ…
…Lusitania was torpedoed. The men escorted the ladies to the port side to wait for the boats. Reginald Lockhart and Leonard McMurray heard someone yell out, “women and children in the boats”. The group headed amidships and stopped in front of lifeboat 14. They handed Laura Ryerson and her mother into the boat. Mary Ryerson called out to them, “Aren’t you coming?” Lockhart jumped in but McMurray stepped back, as the lifeboat was overcrowded. Lifeboa…
…did not keep one for himself. Elise and the Loneys stood by the boat station for lifeboat 14. Allen saw that there was still room for her daughter and ordered Virginia to get in the lifeboat. The lifeboat was lowered with Virginia but without the rest of her family. She turned around and saw Elise and her parents on the rapidly sinking deck, waving. Lifeboat 14 capsized and Virginia jumped out and swam. Suction pulled Virginia down once more, and…
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