History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Reverend Simpson, from Roseland, British Columbia, Canada, survived the Lusitania disaster by clinging onto an upturned boat. Reverend Simpson was in cabin C 3 and shared it with Duncan Hanes and Canon Ernest Phair. The stewardess in charge of their cabin was May Bird. The following are Simpson’s words as quoted in The Daily Missoulian, Sunday, 8 May 1915. …
image credit: Michael Poirier/The Evening Mail, 11 May 1915. Richard Rogers, 41, was editor of the Canadian publication, Jack Canuck, based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was traveling with a reporter of his, Ernest Cowper, who was going to the front as a war correspondent. On the day of the disaster, Rogers and Cowper were in …
Annie Richardson, 39, a British national, was one of the pregnant mothers aboard the Lusitania‘s last voyage. Her cabin was E-114 and she shared a room with someone whom she described as being “Scotch” (Chrissie Aitken?). The torpedo struck the Lusitania as Annie was packing her belongings. She ran up the stairs and saw people …
Richard Preston Prichard, 29, was a medical student at McGill University in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. He was lost in the Lusitania sinking. His mother wrote letters to several survivors after the disaster to find out more about what might have happened to him. Prichard had a brother, Mostyn, who lived in Ramsgate. Before sailing on …
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