History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Dr. Daniel Moore, 36, of Yankton, South Dakota, United States, was a surgeon by profession. He was one of a party of American surgeons who had volunteered their services to the British War Office. Moore recalled Lusitania zigzagging some time before the ship was torpedoed. The lifeboat he entered, #14, as Lusitania was sinking was …
Miss Martha “Meta” Moody, 38, the daughter of Martha Moody (born Hemphill). They were from Limavady, County Londonderry, Ireland. Mother and daughter had been visiting Martha’s brother, Reverend John Hemphill, in San Francisco, California, United States. Mother and daughter were returning to Ireland aboard Lusitania. When the ship sank, the daughter was saved, the mother …
Jeanette Mitchell (c. 1888 – 1966), 27, was a British subject from County Down, Ireland (present-day Northern Ireland), traveling aboard Lusitania with her husband Walter Dawson Mitchell, their son, also named Walter Dawson, and her brother, John Moore. Before boarding, they had made friends with fellow Ulster passenger, Mary Agnes Hume. Jeanette and John were saved, but …
Read moreMrs. Walter Dawson Mitchell (Jeanette “Nettie” Elizabeth Moore)
Arthur Jackson Mitchell was an American merchant with the Raleigh Cycle Company who booked passage in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an American citizen originally from Nottinghamshire, England. On the Lusitania, Thursday night, 6 May, he got together with others to plan a committee on how to show people to put on their lifebelts. Captain Turner …
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