The Lusitania Story

Mitch Peeke

• Éditeur: Pen & Sword Maritime
• Année: 2002
• ISBN:
  9781783400386
• Sujet: Tecnologia e ingegneria
• Sous-sujet: Trasporti marittimi

The Lusitania Story is the complete story of this most famous ocean liner, told for the first time in a single volume. The Lusitania is today most remembered for controversy surrounding her loss by a German submarine attack in 1915, during the First World War. But this book also tells of her life before that cataclysmic event. It tells of the ground-breaking advances in maritime engineering that she represented, as well as a hitherto unheard of degree of opulence. This book also takes a close look at the disaster which befell her and, with the help of leading experts, the authors examine the circumstances of her loss and try to determine why this magnificent vessel was lost in a mere eighteen minutes.

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...