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The Lusitania sinking : eyewitness accounts from survivors /Anthony Richards. "The Lusitania sinking is an event that has been predominantly discussed from a political or maritime perspective. For the first time, The Lusitania Sinking tells the story in the emotive framework of a family looking for information on their son's death. On 1 May 1915, the 29-year-old student Preston Prichard embarked as a Second Class passenger on the Lusitania, bound from New York for Liverpool. By 2pm on the afternoon of 7 May, the liner was approaching the Irish coast when she was sighted by the German submarine U-20. A single torpedo caused a massive explosion in the Lusitania's hold, and the ship sank rapidly. Within 20 minutes she disappeared and 1,198 men, women and children, including Preston, died. Uncertain of Preston's fate, his family leaped into action. His brother Mostyn, who lived in Ramsgate, travelled to Queenstown to search morgues but could find nothing. Preston's mother wrote hundreds of letters to survivors to find out more about what might have happened in his last moments. The Lusitania Sinking compiles the responses. Perhaps sensing his fate, Prichard had put his papers in order before embarking and told a fellow student where to find his will if anything happened to him. During the voyage, he was often seen in the company of Grace French, quoted above. Alice Middleton, who had a crush on him but was too shy to speak to him throughout the entire voyage, remembered that he helped her in reaching the upper decks during the last moments of the sinking: '[The Lusitania] exploded and down came her funnels, so over I jumped. I had a terrible time in the water bashing about among the wreckage and dead bodies. It was 10.30 before they landed me at the hospital in an unconscious condition. In fact, they piled me with a boat full of dead and it was only when they were carrying the dead bodies to the mortuary they discovered there was still life in me.'"--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.4514

The camp magazine : being the periodical of the 1st Royal Naval Brigade, interned in Holland. 1915-1918. • JOURNAL • 4 copies available.

Seamanship 1862 MacGregor, David R (int) 1979 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12.014"18"

Studies in naval history : biographies Laughton, John Knox, 1970 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.33:92

An Historical atlas of modern Europe from 1789 to 1914, with an historical and explanatory text Robertson, C Grant 1915 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 940.27/.28:912.44

Seamanship / Nares, G S. 1868. Nares, George S.-(George Strong), 1868 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.052

A Bounty boy : being some adventures of a Christian barbarian on an unpremeditated trip round the world Bullen, Frank Thomas, 1907 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

The story of Trafalgar Laughton, John Knox, 1890 • • 1 copy available. 355.49"1805"(42:44)

Nelson's last codicil Laughton, John Knox, 1889 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92Nelson

Seamanship : including names of principal parts of a ship ... Nares, George S.-(George Strong), 1886 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.052

Endless harbor : the story of Newport News /by Parke Rouse. Rouse, Parke, [1969]. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 627.2(735.5)

The rise of the Atlantic economies Davis, Ralph, 1973 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 33(4):930.9

Seamen's sixpences : an index of commercial activity, 1697-1828 Davis, Ralph, 1956 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22

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