Harold Taylor papers 1914-1990

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, ...

Taylor, Lucy, fl. 1915.

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Taylor, Harold W.

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Harold W. Taylor travelled from the United States on RMS (Registered Merchant Ship) Lusitania with his new wife Lucy (ne Haddock), a United States citizen since 1913, for a honeymoon in England. They both survived its sinking in 1915. From the guide to the Harold Taylor papers, 1914-1990, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) ...