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McKendry, McKindrey, or McKinley?

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:52:38 +0000

In the engineering crew is a survivor from Newry, County Down, Ireland who has been named “Andrew McKindrey,” “Andrew McKendry,” and “Andrew McKinley.”

Any help in shedding light on this survivor’s actual name would be very much appreciated.

New bios and pages – 26 January 2012

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:05:54 +0000

New biographies and pages today!

Dr. Silvio de Vescovi, second cabin passenger

Mr. Owen Slavin, trimmer, engineering crew

Mr. Frank McAteer, trimmer, engineering crew

Mr. Patrick McKenna, fireman, engineering crew

Happy Chinese New Year! And 1,000 pages!

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:16:37 +0000

Happy Chinese New Year! Although there were no Chinese nationals aboard Lusitania…, but British and American businessmen in Asia traveling to England via California.

The Lusitania Resource is now at over 1,000 pages! Of course, not all of these are biographies, because there are pages on history, the ship, other ships, etc., so the actual [...]

New pages and expanded bios, 22 January 2012

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:06:11 +0000

New pages and expanded biographies!

New: Martin Geraghty, Victualling Michael Grant, Engineering Philip Keating, Engineering Thomas Ledene, Deck Daniel Lee, Engineering Isaac Linton, Engineering Patrick Loughran, Engineering Annie MacHardy, Second Cabin Patrick Markey, Engineering Peter McBride, Engineering

Expanded: Arthur Foley, Second Cabin Owen McCann, Engineering

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Post in forums with Facebook!

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:24:51 +0000

You can now use your Facebook account to post in our Lusitania forum without needing to create a new username!

Why don’t you get started right now?

Thoughts and Prayers go out to Passengers and Crew of the Costa Concordia

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:03:29 +0000

Perhaps everyone has been following this story in the news over the past week: the Costa Cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Italy, capsized and partially sank, lying on a shelf of rocks near the island of Giglio.

Of the 4,252 on board, 4,197 have been rescued. Twelve deaths are confirmed [...]

Happy New Year!

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:49:22 +0000

It’s a delayed post, but I thought I’d wish everyone a Happy New Year regardless! What’s happening this year at The Lusitania Resource?

On the list: - finalizing the move of the Lusitania calendar onto the calendar application instead of a list - start a “books” section under multimedia - prepare a section on rescue [...]

Christmas in the Trenches

admin — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:44:08 +0000

Merry Christmas everyone, from The Lusitania Resource! No, no updates today. Go spend time with your family, loved ones, and friends.

To make this World War I related, this is a reminder of the wish for peace on Earth for all, regardless of backgrounds and boundaries that supposedly divide us.

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Happy Chanukah! & 19 new bios

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:50:42 +0000

Happy Chanukah, everybody! In addition to being the first night of Chanukah, 19 new biographies have been added to the site:

Second Cabin Catherine Gilhooly Margaret McClintock

Engineering Owen Donnelly

The following are stub articles that could use your help in contributions, if you know more about these people: Daniel Barrett W. Barry Patrick Brennan [...]

New bios! 16 December 2011

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:11:19 +0000

New biographies:

Third class Michael Doyle Kate Duplex Teresa Feeley Joseph Feeley John Ferrick Margaret Ferrick

Deck crew Peter Smith