The Lusitania sinking : eyewitness accounts from survivors

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Label

The Lusitania sinking : eyewitness accounts from survivors

Title remainder

eyewitness accounts from survivors

Statement of responsibility

Anthony Richards

Creator

• Richards, Anthony, (Archivist)

Contributor

• ProQuest (Firm)

Author

• Richards, Anthony, (Archivist)

Subject

• Lusitania (Steamship)
• Survival at sea

Language

eng

Summary

"On May 1, 1915, 29-year-old student Preston Prichard embarked as a Second Class passenger on the Lusitania, bound from New York for Liverpool. By 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7, the liner was approaching the coast of Ireland when she was sighted by the German submarine U-20. A single torpedo caused a massive explosion in the Lusitania's hold, and the ship began sank rapidly. Within 20 minutes she disappeared, and 1,198 men, women, and children, including Preston, died. Uncertain of Preston's fate, his family leaped into action. His brother Mostyn, who lived in Ramsgate, travelled to Queenstown to search morgues but could find nothing. Preston's mother wrote hundreds of letters to survivors to find out more about what might have happened in his last moments. The Lusitania Sinking compiles the responses received."--

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Provided by publisher

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NhCcYBP

Dewey number

940.4/514

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

D592.L8

LC item number

R53 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography