Deposition of William T. Turner, Captain of the Lusitania

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Deposition of William T. Turner, Captain of the Lusitania

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This item is the transcript of the deposition given by William T. Turner, Captain of the steamship Lusitania, in the Titanic liability case regarding disaster procedures and precautions. Captain Turner's testimony was given the day before the Lusitania sailed on its last voyage prior to be sunk.

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Lusitania (Steamship)

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The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on May 7, 1915 by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland; 1,198 passengers and crew died. The Cunard Line launched Lusitania in 1906. When RMS Lusitania left New York for Britain on May 1, 1915, German submarine warfare was intensifying in the Atlantic. On the afternoon of May 7, a German U-boat torpedoed Lusitania inside the declared war zone. A second, unexplained, internal explosion, probably that of munitions she was carrying, ...