History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
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. …
Frank Naumann, 61, was a wealthy merchant from Cranleigh, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. He was a founding member and first Worshipful Master of the Cranleigh Masonic Lodge. Naumann was lost in the Lusitania sinking. Life Naumann helped found the Cranleigh Lodge in 1910, of which there were ten founding members. The occupations of the other …
Gustav Nyblom, 29, was a Swedish national and mining engineer returning from Canada and visiting his sister in Sheffield, England. Nyblom was lost when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk. Life Nyblom was born in Stockholm, Sweden and his family lived in Moseback Torg, near central Stockholm. He went to Canada to continue his training …
Captain James Miller (1883 – 1915), 32, was of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Service. He was from Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. He had been involved in the heroic rescue of the steamer Tahoma off the Alaskan coast in 1914. In 1915, he was to report to a new job in Washington, D.C., but …
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