History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…icles of furniture, and furnishings, which were later appraised at $92,125.00. In Docket No. 529 the claim, which is put forward on behalf of the administratrix of the estate of the decedent, is based on the theory that prior to his leaving France the decedent had secretly stored valuable property somewhere outside of Paris to prevent its falling into the hands of the German forces then approaching that city. The argument is pressed that the deced…
…York on the morning of 1 May 1915. The ship was scheduled to depart at 10:00 a.m., but she would have had to have waited until 12:27 p.m. due to the delay caused by the transferring of a number of passengers, cargo, and some of the crew from the S.S. Cameronia. Then, six days later, on the afternoon of 7th May, the German submarine U-20, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger, torpedoed and sank Lusitania within sight of the coast…
…usly awaiting some news but feared the worst as we had some friends at Queenstown that made a minute search of all the poor victims. I had a letter from one of the survivors a Mr. Sumner. [H]e gives a rather mysterious account of a young Doctor that very much resembled my sons Photo[.] Mr. Sumner was on to a raft when he saw this young man approach swimming very badly & much exhausted when he got on the raft he told them he was a Dr. & gave them i…
…orry, we have an escort both going & coming over the war zone.” His dining companions included a woman and her father, of which only the woman survived. A survivor later contacted Ethel, stating that Black went to the starboard side after lunch. Nothing more is known of what happened to him. Black’s body was not recovered or not identified. After the sinking, Ethel was in contact with the Prichard family in search of news of Richard Preston Pricha…
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