Welcome to Lusitania Online
The home port of RMS Lusitania on the web since 2000
No1 for information on the RMS Lusitania and her last Master Captain
W.T.Turner
THERE IS NOT A BRITON ANYWHERE WHO OUGHT NOT TO FEEL PROUD THAT THIS LAUNCH
HAS PLACED GREAT BRITAIN FIRMLY AT THE FOREFRONT OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE."
Sir Charles McLaren, Chairman of John Brown & Co. at the launching of the Lusitania.
“The Lusitania Story has now been updated and re-published in a 2015 Centenary edition.
Click HERE for details
NOW AVAILABLE !
For the first time ever; the 27-page SUPPLEMENTARY cargo manifest for the Lusitania’s last voyage !#
HERE
WHERE DID THE TORPEDO HIT THE LUSITANIA?
Visit THE HUNTERS page for important new information on this, plus a popular myth concerning one of U20's crewmen,
which has now been conclusively laid to rest.
WRECK OF USS INDIANAPOLIS FOUND
History of the USS Indianapolis and Captain McVay
RNLI Lifeboat Station at Courtmacsherry's Lusitania page
NEWS!
We are pleased to announce our association with another Historic Ship Society:
The Medway Queen Preservation Society.
Based at Gillingham Pier in Medway, Kent, the MQPS is a registered charity dedicated to saving this former
Thames Estuary pleasure steamer. She became known as "The Heroine of Dunkirk" after she rescued 7,000 troops
during Operation Dynamo, the Dunkirk Evacuation of May/June 1940.
The full details of her remarkable story can be found in the pages of Richard Halton's books and on the MQPS website
Lusitania Online serves as a vast informational source as well as an image library for those who are interested in the
RMS Lusitania for research, educational purposes and from a historical aspect of World War I. Lusitania Online is an online,
non-profit resource dedicated to exhibiting information, memorabilia and documentation of historical value for public
viewing and research benefit.
By promoting and displaying such artefacts, they are prevented from staying solely in private collections where their history
will be forgotten and be lost to the world.
All information on this web site comes from the painstaking research we have done for our books.
We are extremely grateful to the following institutions:
In the UK; Sydney Jones Library at Liverpool University (Cunard Archives), Hill, Dickinson & Co. Archive Dept. (Cunard's Lawyers),
Kent County Library Services, National Maritime Museum, Imperial War Museum, Merseyside Maritime Museum, UK National Archives,
Royal Artillery Historical Trust, Royal Artillery Museum.
In the US; New York Public Library, The Museum of the City of New York, New York Times Archives, Library of Congress, NARA,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Archive.
In Germany; BundesMilitarArchiv, Cuxhaven U-Boat Archive, MarineNachrichtenBlatt.
In Denmark; Strandings Museum, Thorsminde.
In the Republic of Ireland; Kinsale Museum. Dara Gannon, RNLI Courtmacsherry.
On a more personal level, we are also deeply indebted to the following persons for their input and support: Gregg Bemis, owner of the
Lusitania wreck. Geoff Whitfield and Peter Engberg-Klarstrom, of both the British and Scandinavian Titanic Societies respectively.
Helmut Doeringhof. Stan Walter. Dr John Bullen. Colonel J M Phillips, BA MsocSC. Chief Engineer David Garstin, RN (Retd). Peter Boyd-Smith.
George Cogswell.Kevin Roach. The late Sally Wells and her family. Richard Heier. Ralf Bartzke. Bernd Langensiepen. Tom from
uboataces.com. Stephen Rodgers of GE Power Systems, Clydebank, (formerly John Brown's, Lusitania's builders). Leigh Bishop. John Gray.
There is nothing contained on this web site that has not been verified by sight of documentary evidence.
Comments and suggestions to admin@lusitania.net