Lusitania Online

The home port of RMS.Lusitania.

No. 1 for information on the ship and her last Master,
Captain W.T. Turner.

Lusitania's

last resting Place

Note

We received an email from Mr. David Sayle in the Isle of Man
who states

"Did you know that some of the Lusitania's lifeboats survived and were used as viking boats in Peel during 1970's and later.

I personally along with others, rowed one of them (named sea dragon) from Peel in the Isle of Man to Strangford Loch in Ireland. It was done for charity in the international year of the child and a lot of funds were raised. Some of these lifeboats may still survive yet.

My point being that even years later, Lusitania's lifeboats were still saving people, albeit in a different way.The year we rowed sea dragon to Ireland was 1983"

Engineers Remembered.

As with just about any maritime disaster involving a great loss of life, it is the ship's Engineers who invariably leave most of their number behind.

The Engineers aboard the Lusitania on that fateful Friday were no different. Like their famously stoic comrades aboard the Titanic before them, some 66 per cent of the Lusitania's Engineers did not survive the sinking. The ship's Chief Engineer, Archie Bryce, who was a close personal friend of Captain Turner, was one of those men.

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Chart showing debris field co-ordinates.

The wreck of the ship is owned by an American businessman named F. Gregg Bemis Junior.

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Gregg Bemis, pictured emerging from a Delta mini-sub following a dive to the Lusitania wreck in 1993.
(Photo courtesy of Gregg Bemis).

Although Mr Bemis has proved his ownership in three separate courts,
the Irish Office of Public Works have placed an Underwater Heritage Order upon the site occupied by Mr. Bemis' property.

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Any projected diving operations to the Lusitania therefore need to go through a complicated application procedure before permission to visit the wreck can be obtained.

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The Irish Navy patrols the wreck site to enforce the Heritage Order.

Details of previous diving expeditions to the wreck of the Lusitania

can be found by visiting www.divernet.com

WRECK PHOTOGRAPHS.

One of two telegraphs from the stern docking bridge, on the seabed at a depth of 93 metres. Note a section of the stern safety rail above. (Leigh Bishop).

Bollards located on the starboard side of the foredeck. They still have rope
coiled around them. (Leigh Bishop).