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The Lusitania Story
About this book
The history of the magnificent British ship—and an investigation into the mysteries behind her catastrophic sinking by a German submarine.
This is the complete story of the ocean liner remembered today for her dramatic end—torpedoed on May 19, 1915, off the coast of Ireland, during the First World War. But the ship's story dates back to 1902, and her sea journeys began in 1906, when Cunard launched her as the world's largest passenger ship.
This volume not only covers the U-boat attack that killed 1,197 of those aboard, but reveals the history prior to that cataclysmic event. It recounts the ship's design and building, telling of the groundbreaking advances in maritime engineering that she represented as well as a hitherto unheard-of degree of opulence. It also takes a closer look at the disaster that befell her and, with the help of leading experts, examines the circumstances of her destruction and tries to determine why this magnificent vessel was lost in a mere eighteen minutes.
This is the complete story of the ocean liner remembered today for her dramatic end—torpedoed on May 19, 1915, off the coast of Ireland, during the First World War. But the ship's story dates back to 1902, and her sea journeys began in 1906, when Cunard launched her as the world's largest passenger ship.
This volume not only covers the U-boat attack that killed 1,197 of those aboard, but reveals the history prior to that cataclysmic event. It recounts the ship's design and building, telling of the groundbreaking advances in maritime engineering that she represented as well as a hitherto unheard-of degree of opulence. It also takes a closer look at the disaster that befell her and, with the help of leading experts, examines the circumstances of her destruction and tries to determine why this magnificent vessel was lost in a mere eighteen minutes.
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Index
Aboukir, HMS, 60, 96
Ailsa Craig, 27
American Line, 2
Anderson, Staff Captain John C., 50, 51, 55, 63, 75, 76
Andre, Capitaine, 97
Aquitania, RMS, 11, 50, 51, 108
Arabic, 61
Arrol, W. & Co. Ltd., 11, 17
Aspinall, Butler, KC, 84, 85–8
Atlas works, 12
Ausonia, 48
Balfour, A.J., 89
Ballard, Dr Robert, 92–3
Ballin, Albert, 32
Barrand, Captain, 49
Battery Park, 30, 50
Bemis, F. Gregg, Jr., 92, 93, 105
Bennett, Sir Courtenay, 53–4, 63
Berengaria, 107
Bernard, Captain V.H., 42
Bestic, Junior Third Officer Albert, 57, 70–1, 73, 76, 78, 79
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, 100, 102
Bluebell, 79
Blue Riband, 2, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 107
Board of Trade, 24, 25, 35–6, 84, 89
Booth, Alfred, 43, 48, 49–50, 86, 90, 107
Boyd-Smith, Peter, 92
Branson, P., 84
Bremen, 34, 107
Bristol, HMS, 40, 41
Britannic, 11, 23
British Admiralty, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 25, 37, 39, 42–3, 44, 45, 46, 48, 52, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 67, 68, 69, 71, 75, 79, 81–5, 88, 89, 91, 99, 107
British Empire, 1
Brown Brothers Ltd., 12
Brown, John, & Co. Ltd., 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 1...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Forces of Creation
- Design
- Building the Dream
- Launch
- Fitting Out
- Trials and Alterations
- Lusitania in Service
- War!
- The Last Departure
- The 202nd Atlantic Voyage
- The Sinking of the Lusitania
- Public Enquiries: The Crown v The Truth
- The Wreck of the Lusitania
- What Sank the Lusitania ?
- Epilogue
- Appendix I Passenger and Crew List for Lusitania's Last Voyage
- Appendix II Cunard Obligations: 1903 Agreement
- Appendix III Lusitania Online
- Appendix IV Dimensions and Statistics of RMS Lusitania
- Bibliography
- Index