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LUSITANIA MYTH

... LUSITANIA MYTH Another of the great myths which circulated about RMS Lusitania after it was sunk off the Old Head of Kinsale by the German submarine U-20, was that its sinking resulted in America entering the war in 1917 but this erroneous myth is explored ...

Published: Thursday 14 March 2002
Newspaper: Bray People
County: Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 331 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

RMS LUSITANIA

... RMS LUSITANIA One of the secrets which the RMS Lusitania took to the seabed with her off the Old Head of Kinsale on May 7th 1915 when she was sunk by 1 torpedo fired with by the German submarine U-20 , was her consignment of munitions which her passengers ...

Published: Thursday 07 November 2002
Newspaper: Bray People
County: Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

SPAS LUSITANIA

... SPAS LUSITANIA Captain Albert Bestic who survived the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915 lived in Bray for a number of years and died in the town. Two explosions sank the RMS Lusitania in less than 18 minutes and while the cause of the first was due ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1999
Newspaper: Bray People
County: Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

RMS LUSITANIA

... RMS LUSITANIA Guest speaker for last Friday afternoon's meeting of Charabanc in the Parochial Hall was James Scannell who gave a fascinating talk on the history of the RMS Lusitania and brought with him the latest book to be published on this famous lined ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 2002
Newspaper: Bray People
County: Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 148 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

RMS LUSITANIA

... RMS LUSITANIA A very graphic and dramatic account of the final 18 minutes of the RMS Lusitania before she slipped beneath the waves after being torpe- ...

Published: Thursday 17 October 2002
Newspaper: Bray People
County: Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 26 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

RMS LUSITANIA

... RMS LUSITANIA Last Friday was the 89th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine without warning off the Old Head of Kinsale with the loss of 1198 passengers and crew . The background to the sinking of this majestic liner, ...

Published: Thursday 13 May 2004
Newspaper: Bray People
County: Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 51 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

Survived sinking of the Lusitania

... Survived sinking of the Lusitania ship's cells on suspicion of being German spies. On May 6th as it neared the Irish Coast, Lusitania's master Captain Turner was warned by radio that a German submarine was active in the area ahead and he reacted by ordering ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1993
Newspaper: Bray People
County: Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 637 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

Junior Third Officer Bestic and Lusitania

... Officer Bestic and Lusitania WHEN Albert A. Bestic boarded the RMS Lusitania in New York in May 1915. he did not realise his first voyage on the liner known as the 'Greyhound of the Seas' would be his last. Just days later the Lusitania was struck by a torpedo ...

Published: Thursday 29 April 1999
Newspaper: Bray People
County: Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 887 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TABLE QUIZ

... to help support the free information services on welfare rights, education and training. LUSITANIA MYTH One of the great myths which circulated about RMS Lusitania after it was sunk off the Old Head of Kinsale by the German submarine U-20, was that this ...

Published: Thursday 28 February 2002
Newspaper: Bray People
County: Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

THERE can be few sailors who have suffered the experience of being sunk in both world wars, but this is

... steamers and liners. In 1907 he had seen the `Lusitania' undergoing sea trials off Scotland, little realising that one day he would serve aboard her. In early 1915, the Great War was nearly a year old and the Lusitania continued to sail between Liverpool and ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1993
Newspaper: Bray People
County: Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 671 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

'WILFUL MURDER'

... Preston's Wilful Murder - The Sinking of the Lusitania', published by Transworld Publishers, this excellent, fascinating and engrossing book looks at all the. circumstances surrounding the sinking of the RMS Lusitania off the Old Head of Kinsale by the German ...

Published: Thursday 12 June 2003
Newspaper: Bray People
County: Wicklow, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 30 | Tags: none