Lusitania families reunited
Joyce Percival and Mary Jones at the Lusitania commemoration in 2015 Every year on 7 May Merseyside Maritime Museum marks the anniversary of the tragic loss of the Lusitania with a commemoration and...
View ArticleOnline collections – Lusitania and Liverpool’s First World War at sea
1987.306 Lusitania in the Mersey, by W L Wyllie This time last year, RMS Lusitania was a focus of local, national and international attention as we marked 100 years since the sinking of this famous...
View ArticleRare photos of Cunard Building on its centenary
Foundations of Cunard building, dated 28 July 1913. Credit: Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool (Merseyside Maritime Museum) On Saturday, Cunard is celebrating the centenary of its former Liverpool...
View ArticleRemembering Britannic – Titanic’s sister ship
DX/2108/4/3 Today marks the centenary of the sinking of White Star Line’s Britannic. Built at Harland and Wolff’s shipyard in Belfast, she was the third of the Olympic-class passenger liners – sister...
View ArticleMovember 2016
Photograph of crew members of Lusitania, Cunard Line, taken in New York, 1910 (Maritime Archives and Library reference DX/1055). I almost made it through November this year without mentioning Movember...
View ArticleCentenary of the sinking of White Star Line’s Laurentic
MCR/82/167 Copyright unknown, believed to be expired As we continue to mark the centenary of the First World War, I wanted to highlight a Liverpool ship that was lost on 25 January 1917. Laurentic...
View ArticleOsmund Bartle Wordsworth – a survivor of Lusitania
Courtesy of The Warden and Scholars of Winchester College As we approach the 102nd anniversary of the tragic sinking of RMS Lusitania, guest blogger Lucy London is here to tell us about her research...
View Article“Those monstrous funnels coming down on us”
This photograph of Winifred Hull was taken in Liverpool, just three weeks after the sinking. Courtesy of Geoff Pawling. Geoff Pawling, who spoke at this year’s Lusitania commemoration, describes a...
View ArticleRMS Lusitania – remembering Alfred Faulkner Wheelhouse
Lusitania commemoration 2017 Monday 7 May will mark the 103rd anniversary of the sinking of RMS Lusitania, and we will be gathering alongside the Lusitania propeller for our annual commemorative...
View ArticleRemembering Lusitania
James Wallace wearing his Cunard uniform. Image courtesy of Kath Kavanagh Tuesday 7th May 2019 marks the 104th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Lusitania. Each year we hold a commemorative service...
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