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LUSITANIA SUNK

... LUSITANIA SUNK. TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING OFF IRISH COAST. ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TWO TORPEDOES

... TORPEDOES. SURVIVORS' STORIES OF THZ DISASTER. Prom the narratives of survivors it pears that at the time of the disaster the Lusitania was steaming at seventeen eighteen knots. It is stated that at soon on Friday the liner made a sudden turn north in a great ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 900 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE

... APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE. By sinking without warning the greet Cunard liner Lusitania off the Old Head of Kinsale on Friday afternoon a German submarine has committed the most infamous outrage of the blockade. The liner .had '2,160 souls on board, many ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 369 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CAPTAIN OF THE LIISITANIA

... CAPTAIN OF THE LIISITANIA. The Lusitania, was under the command of Captain Turner, who was temporarily taking. the place of Captain Dow. Captain Turner is well known to Atlantic travellers. nib career has been remarkable. Starting life in the humble capacity ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MR. THOMAS'S STORY

... terrible experience. Equipped with a life-preserver, she went down in the Lusitania. and was picked up unconscious after being in the water three and a half hours. The Lusitania was torpedoed without notice about fifteen miles off the Irish comet. said ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TO THE RESCUE

... news of the disaster was made known in the City by the following message posted at Lloyd's:— The Admiralty report that the Lusitania was sunk o the Old Head of Kin• sale at 2.15 this afternoon. Before long the offices of the Cunard Company in Palmerston ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 611 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MI COURIER-SATURDAY, MY 15, 1915

... SHIP. The Lusitania was built at Clydebank, outside Glsegow. by the firm of John Brown and Co. In 1907 the North German Lloyd 'learners bad secured the North Atlantis record with a ship reaching the speed of twenty-three knot's. The Lusitania attained ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1301 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A Burst

... management with their usual enterprise have been the first to introduce plc-- tures in this district of the sinking of the Lusitania, with the scenes in and around Queenstown and IC.nsale after the disaster. Next week will be shown The Long Way an adaption ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PIRATES RECORD WEEL

... PIRATES RECORD WEEL As was to be expected, in view of the sinking of the Lusitania, the Admiralty statement issued on Friday of the shipping losses sustained during the previous seven days shows a record figure in gross tonnage destroyed. Within the week ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1385 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE LOST LIISITANIA

... where a man has none it will be paid into a fund for him on his return. . r . of • • • This picture of the boat deck of the Lusitania gives some idea of the immense size of this magnificent vessel, the sinking of which by a German submarine, with an appalling ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 711 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

CANNOCK

... _adict D Dom Natural Causes. The Sinking of the LUllitaniii. The rumour was circulated uu Friday even iag, that the ship Lusitania had been collie, clued, and althvugh the hope was expressed that the lives were saved many doubted if it was true that al ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1631 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE COURIER. MAY 15t1:, 1913. Telephone No. 33, Telegrams : Comma. jaiM may be some exazv•r:l., but it is pusbible

... con'o Queenstown. Here silo was placed badly from k e r e bruise'. the lady was given first in i,.,we v ,tr. aim lady the Lusitania i e proceed and identified her. accompany her to her It It is difficult ible knee that the lady alternuon of Fi iday %\eel ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1915
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 959 | Page: 7 | Tags: none