Thomas Brennan was a trimmer aboard Lusitania who survived the sinking. He survived by clinging to wreckage for several hours. His family had not known that he had survived until a week after the disaster. By that time, he had been taken to Cork, Ireland.
Family legend states that Alfred Vanderbilt had seen Brennan in the water and offered Brennan a share of the Vanderbilt fortune to help him. Brennan was in no condition to help and Vanderbilt perished. Brennan had two fingers in permanently paralyzed as a result of the Lusitania disaster. Thomas Brennan lived into his eighties.
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Steve Foster
References:
“RMS Lusitania.” Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild. Online. Accessed 24 February 2012. <http://www.immigrantships.net/v4/1900v4/lusitania19150507.html>
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