History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Sadie Hale (1885 – 1915), 29, was the typist aboard Lusitania on the ship’s final voyage. A native of northern Ireland, she was a British subject and was killed when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915. Her body was recovered, #127, and is buried in the …
George William Alfred Beesley (1893 – 1915), 22, was a Junior Assistant Purser aboard the Lusitania. Beesley was killed when the Lusitania was torpedoed on 7 May 1915. His body was either never recovered or not identified, and he is memorialized at Tower Hill, London. The following biography has been made possible by Peter Kelly …
Read moreMr. George William Alfred Beesley, Junior Assistant Purser
William Rankin Le Neve Yetts (1867 – 1915), 48, was a British subject and an able-bodied seaman from Dundee, Scotland, who served in the deck department of the Lusitania on the ship’s last voyage. As of 1915, Yetts lived in New York City, New York, USA. Yetts died when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk …
Read moreMr. William Rankin Le Neve Yetts, Able-Bodied Seaman
John Thomson (1900 – 1915), 15, was a British subject and Scottish national serving as an ordinary seaman for the deck department of the Lusitania on the ship’s final voyage. Thomson was killed when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk on 7 May 1915, one of the youngest crew members to be lost in the …
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