History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Age: 25 Status: Saved Ticket: Second Cabin Rescue vessel: fishing boat and Stormcock Evelyn Wild, 25, and her sister Agnes were British nationals living in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. They traveled together on Lusitania in second cabin; their cabin was D-89. Both sisters survived the sinking, and Evelyn later testified at the Mersey Inquiry, …
Image: Michael Poirier/Mariners’ Museum Florence Whitehead, 41, was the foster sister of Elizabeth Hampshire, with whom she was traveling aboard Lusitania. The sisters roomed in E-135 with Henrietta Pirrie. Florence and Elizabeth were at lunch when the torpedo struck. They saw lifeboat 11 spill and safely escaped in lifeboat 13. In the lifeboat, she, Elizabeth, …
Martha Ann Whyatt, 60, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States, was recently widowed and was traveling aboard Lusitania to start a new life in England. She survived the sinking. Martha Whyatt was a native of England and moved to New Bedford with her husband Aaron Whyatt in 1911. After Aaron died, she decided to return …
image credit: The Boston Globe, Globe Pequot Press. Guilford, CT. Courtesy Carole Lindsay. Mr. Sidney Taft was a British citizen from Needham, Massachusetts, United States. He was saved from the sinking of the Lusitania. Contributors: Carole Lindsay Michael Poirier Hildo Thiel References: The Boston Globe, Globe Pequot Press. Guilford, CT.
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