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From: Sharon <>
Subject: Re: [TSL] The Leinster? or Lusitanian
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 13:02:54 -0800


Hi Kathleen!

Just to add to what Sue alredy said - if it is indeed the Lusitanian...

The Cunard liner Lusitania made 4 voyages to New York during 1915, before
being torpedoed near Old Head of Kinsale on 7 May 1915, with the loss of
1,198 lives.

There is a picture and a brief description of the Lusitanian at the following
url: http://www.uiowa.edu/~english/litcult2097/tlucht/bt-lusitania.html

I don't know of any online passenger list for the ship, but you might want to
contact Cunard Lines and see what they have available. You can access them
online at: http://www.liv.ac.uk/~archives/cunard/pass.htm

Also, the following was posted by a previous list member (Mary Durse):

"THE LUSITANIA [1907 Cunard LIne] was one of only 14 four - stackers ever
built. I believe it was sunk in the North Atlantic and Contributed, if not
was the sole cause, of the begining of World War 1. There is a question as to
the "torpedo therory" !!"

"It is now questioned whether she hit a mine, laid weeks earlier , by a
German submarine. Robart Ballard, Woods Hole Institute, Mass., investigated
the wreckage of the Lusitania. It is thought now, that it was not a mine. The
debris field , from point of explosion, to where Lusitania rests in her
watery grave, shows NO EVIDENCE of a mine being at the point of explosion.
Robert Ballard laid a Memorial Marker on Lusitania , naming it a Maritime
Memorial. Ballard did this in hopes no one will distrurb her resting place.
Robert Ballard is also the discoverer of Titanic's grave location."

Sharon
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