Not
on Board
This is an interesting section, as the initial lists of the lost and
saved had several errors that needed to be ironed out. I don't
know if there is some definitive list of who was or was not on
board, but in the meantime, this will have to do.
First Class
ADAMS, Mrs. Jane
Passenger: first class. On the Sunday, May 9, list of survivors but was
not on Saturday’s passenger list.
BERTH, Mr. and Mrs.
Page 2 of Monday’s New York Times has Mr. George Kessler say that
he saw "Mrs. Berth" get into a lifeboat after "Mr. Berth" persuaded her
to. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Berth’s name appeared on any list in
Saturday’s, Sunday’s, or Monday’s paper. The couple he cited was
actually Mr.
and Mrs. Bruno.
BOWEN, Edward B.
A weathly shoe dealer from Boston, Massachusetts canceled
his booking the morning the Lusitania
was to sail. "A feeling grew upon me," he said, "that something
was going to happen to the Lusitania.
I talked it over with Mrs. Bowen and we decided to cancel our passage
-- although I had an important business engagement in London."
COBORNE, Mrs. A. S.
New York. This name was on the Sunday, May 9, list of survivors.
She is actually Mrs. Alexandra Osbourne.
COHEN, M.
New York.
COMPTON, Master Hugh
Passenger. Died, body recovered. Hugh Compton was 17 years old
and the son of the president of the Booth Line. This is probably a
misspelling of the name of Stephen Hugh CROMPTON, of Philadephia.
DUFF-GORDON, Lady Cosmo (Lucile)
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Renowned fashion designer and infamous survivor of the Titanic disaster (in which it was
alleged that her husband bribed those in their lifeboat, #1, not to go
back for survivors for fear of swamping), purportedly cancelled passage
on the Lusitania's last
voyage due to illness.
FABER, Mrs.
She was supposedly traveling with the Plamondon couple from Chicago.
Mrs.
Faber was the wife of the leading man in the “White Feather” company,
then at the Princess Theatre, Chicago. She was known on the English
stage as Winifred Arthur Jones, daughter of Henry Arthur Jones,
playwright.
MANGONE, Mr. Philip
Another well-known designer of women's clothing who cancelled passage
on the Lusitania's last
voyage, but flew on the last voyage of the Zeppelin Hindenburg and survived the
catastrophe despite suffering major burns.
MUNRO, Mrs. Charles (Alexandria)
Her presence on board the Lusitania
has been much debated, but records show her passing though Ellis Island
the following year, which makes a very strong case for her still being
alive at this point.
PIPER, Miss Alta
Daughter of renowned spiritualist Leonora Piper, Alta was on her way to
attend the wedding of the eldest daughter of Sir Oliver Lodge.
Despite her mother's protestations and not yet having her passport
ready, Alta went as far as New York before a wave of unease swept
across her the night before sailing. All night, a voice called to
her, saying, "If you get into your berth, you'll never get out."
Panicked, the next morning she tried to cancel passage, saying that her
passport had not been delivered to her yet, but the Cunard agents
reassured her that her passport would be waiting for her in
England. Piper then said that there wasn't enough time for her to
gather her luggage and get on board in time before sailing, but the
agents then told her that the Lusitania's
sailing had been delayed by two hours (undoubtedly due to the Cameronia
transfer) and that she had plenty of time. Just an hour before
departure, a desk clerk handed Alta an envelope containing her
passport. Terrified that she might be forced to sail on the
doomed liner, Alta spent the next hour in her room unpacking and
repacking her clothes, as she couldn't be forced to sail with her
belongings in disarray. Relief only came when she heard the Lusitania's whistles for departure,
and then she knew that no one could make her sail on that ship.
TERRY, Miss Ellen
The renowned stage actress had booked passage with Charles Frohman, but
had
cancelled due to the threat of German submarines. She sailed on
the
American Line's New York, instead, and had tried to persuade Rita Jolivet to do the
same without avail.
TWENLOW, Miss Mabel
She was an actress and had booked cabin D-39. Mabel was ill when
she came to the United States the previous week and decided to stay
because of her illness.
Second Class
CURRAN, Sarah
Philadelphia, PA. Named in article about people from Philadelphia
but not on the Saturday, May 8, passenger list. Supposedly transferred
from the Cameronia.
BURKE, Mrs.
New York. Passenger. Not on any of the passenger lists in The
New York Times. Reference to her is made in an article in The New
York Times, Wednesday, May 12, page 2, that she had been a traveling
companion to Miss Ella Woods Lawrence, q.v., both of whom had
volunteered
for service in the Serbian Red Cross.
GALLAHGER, Miss Margaret.
Another supposed transfer from the Cameronia. Not on the
second
cabin passenger list, but a Margaret Galligan is listed; however Miss
Galligan
per the Cunard Confidentiality Report was not a Cameronia
transfer.
GATHERWOOD, Mr. John
Supposedly transferred from the Cameronia. Most likely
actually
Mr. John Catherwood, who was transferred from the Cameronia
with his
wife.
Crew
Dowie
Dowie was the ship’s black cat and stokers’ mascot, jumped ship the
night before it left New York.
TOWER, Frank
Crew: fireman. Fictional person or hoax. Supposedly survived the
sinking of the Titanic (1912), the Empress of Ireland
(1914),
and then the Lusitania. No one by that name is listed in the
crews
of any of those ships; however, there was a fireman named
Frank TONER.
Contributors:
Randy Bryan Bigham
Jim Kalafus
Mike Poirier
References:
Goss, Michael and George Behe. Lost at Sea: Ghost Ships and
Other Mysteries. Prometheus Books, 1994.
Hickey, Des and Gus Smith. Seven Days to Disaster.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981.
Hoehling, A. A. Who
Destroyed the Hindenburg?
Popular Library, 1962.
Hoehling, A. A. and Mary Hoehling. The Last Voyage of the
Lusitania. Madison Books, 1956.
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