History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Bridget Lee, 51, was a British citizen and Irish national who lived in New York City, New York, United States. She and her niece, Margaret Galligan, were originally planning to sail aboard Cameronia to Ireland, but the British Admiralty’s requisition of that ship reshuffled them aboard Lusitania. Both Bridget and Margaret survived the Lusitania sinking. Bridget Lee, was originally from …
Margaret Galligan (1893 – 1973), 22, was a British subject and Irish national living in the United States who was traveling with her aunt, Bridget Lee, as second cabin passengers aboard the Lusitania‘s last voyage. Margaret and Bridget had planned to take the Cameronia across the Atlantic, but the ship’s requisitioning by the British Admiralty reshuffled …
Robert Kay, 7, was an American child, from Rhinelander Avenue, Bronx, New York, United States, traveling aboard the Lusitania with his mother Marguerita. Marguerita was lost in the Lusitania sinking. Robert was saved. Kay would much later write an account of the sinking, An Earlier Day of Infamy, which stands as the best ‘child’s perspective’ of the disaster yet …
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