Stanley Lines, 30, was manager of the Canadian branch of the Chamberlain and Hookham Electric Meter Company of Birmingham, England. He and his wife Ethel were British subjects who lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Stanley and Ethel were traveling aboard Lusitania to England to volunteer with the Red Cross. Both Stanley and Ethel survived the Lusitania disaster.
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Michael Poirier
Ethel and Stanley were my grandparents (mother’s side). I did not know until recently that they were separated for almost a month after the sinking……must have been terrible for them because they had only been married a short while. Fortunately Ethel left a diary behind, describing the whole disaster to the best of her memory. May God Bless them both. I am but one grandchild of their love…….but I will never understand their courage. I will always keep their love and courage in mind when I think of them when I look to our past.
Stanley Lines was the son of the Rev Michael V Lines, vicar of St Paul’s, Yoxford, Suffolk.
The couple were in the second class dining room at the time of the disaster.
Mr Lines declared that there was no panic when the ship was torpedoed, but great difficulty in launching the lifeboats.Mr Lines and an officer picked up Mrs. Lines and threw her into No. 13 lifeboat where she was held down. As the ship went down Mr. Lines slid of the deck and grabbed hold of a raft. Whilst in the water Mr. Lines came across a Mr. Bernard, described as a “Harvard man.” This was Mr. Clinton Bernard (1st class passenger) who also survived.