History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…want the ship to escape into the fog again and had been too impatient to wait for Pilot Lanz to identify the nationality of the ship before he ordered the torpedo fired. The torpedo hit the ship under the foremast and Centurion began to sink. The crew abandoned ship. An hour later, the small steamer was still afloat and the U-20 surfaced to finish the job. Schwieger ordered a second torpedo fired to ensure that the ship sank. This torpedo hit the…
…As he watched the unfolding action, an “immense column of water, carrying with it al kinds of debris, shot up from the side of the vessel, and through the promenade deck, so far as I noticed, despite the fact it was a solid wave, it swept right by the open doorways and windows and did not enter the interior of the ship.” He was one of the last people to see William Hodges as Hodges was leaving his portside A Deck cabin with lifebelts. Phillips the…
…ou know whether Oliver Bernard applied to the Board of Trade for compensation for his material losses in the Lusitania? Kate Bernard As OPB was my (paternal) grandfather, I read this with obvious interest. Just one point: Lifeboat 11 is, in my grandfather’s autobiography, referred to as “Lifeboat No. II – but as Charles II (I can’t reproduce the Roman numerals here), and I wondered if it might be number 2, only because, in my grandfather’s words,…
…came hyterical. Lifeboat 15 rowed to another boat that only had one man in it and transferred some of its people into it. Margaret and Desmond were in Dublin during the Easter Rising of 1916. They were in Phoenix Park when a man in front of them was mowed down by machine gun fire. Desmond was educated at St. John’s College and the University of Manitoba. He worked in the insurance industry, spending the last 15 years of his career until 1969 as Pr…
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