![]() ![]() The ship was traveling into a war zone Germany had placed an ad in the New York papers warning of the presence of its U-Boats off the Irish coast and still this ship sailed into harm's way, taking the lives of 1,198 men, women and children. The deplorable lack of functioning rowboats and the reality that passengers and crew had no knowledge of basic safety instructions and procedure is hard to comprehend. This thorough investigation and compilation of facts, interviews, and research of the events by the authors reveal many errors of judgment, and actual malfeasance of government agencies, as well as the lack of preparedness of the captain and crew. There is still no positive conclusion whether the submarine had fired one torpedo or two! Was the second explosion, described by survivors, a torpedo, or was it the explosion of the munitions stored secretly on the ship? Or, are we to believe the submarine captain who stated that he had fired only one torpedo? World opinion at the time supported the belief that it was a German submarine torpedo which brought this great ship down. The reader, as an unbooked passenger, observes from a safe distance as the disaster plays out day by day - while helpless to intervene! ![]() ![]() The tragic story is told in suspenseful and riveting detail. The Lusitania by Greg King and Penny Wilson ![]()
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