Mr. Francis Cranston Kellett

Francis Kellett, 47, was a naturalized American citizen from Ireland living in Tuckahoe, New York, United States, with his wife Margaret and son Stewart. He was vice-president of the Julius Stein Company’s Successors, Inc. He was standing on deck with Joseph Myers and saw the torpedo strike Lusitania. Kellett and Myers were on the port …

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Sir Hugh Percy Lane

Sir Hugh Lane Saloon Passenger Lost image:  New York Times, Saturday 8 May 1915, Page 3. Born Hugh Percy Lane 9 November 1875 County Cork, Ireland, United Kingdom (present-day Ireland) Died 7 May 1915 (age 39) At sea Age on Lusitania 39 Ticket number 46101 Cabin number D 26 Traveling with – Charles Fowles (friend) …

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Father Basil William Maturin

Father Basil Maturin (1847 – 1915), 68, was a British citizen and Irish national.  He was a Roman Catholic chaplain at Oxford University and well-known author of religious books.  Father Maturin, on his 1915 voyage of the Lusitania, had just finished a Lenten series at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in New York. …

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