History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
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 …
Bertha Prescott, née Martin, (1885 – 1915) was a British citizen traveling aboard Lusitania to meet her husband who had been injured in World War I and was in Plymouth, England. Aboard Lusitania she was roommates with Bessie Barbour. Bertha was lost in the Lusitania sinking. Bertha was born on 4 March 1885 in Clee …
image credit: David Bailey. Click on image for full image. Harriet Plank, 61, of 69 Silverthorne Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, lived with her daughter Mrs. Bailey. Harriet booked the Lusitania because she was on her way back to Lancaster, England to visit her son and two other daughters. She came to Canada with her husband, …
Image courtesy Michael Poirier. Henrietta Pirrie, 24, was a British citizen from Glenfarg, Perthshire, Scotland, living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She was aboard Lusitania to be on her way to England to be married. Henrietta was lost in the Lusitania sinking. Henrietta was the daughter of James R. Pirrie of Perth, Scotland. She had at …
194
4
3k
432
