Mr. Henry “Harry” Pollard

Henry “Harry” Pollard, 30, was an inventor traveling aboard Lusitania to sell a formula for poisonous gas to the British Government to aid the war effort. Pollard was a British subject. His ticket aboard Lusitania was 13133 and he was in cabin E-40. Pollard was lost in the Lusitania sinking. The details of his deadly …

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Mr. Frederic John Gauntlett

Frederic Gauntlett Saloon Passenger Saved image credit:  US National Archives/Michael Poirier. Born Frederic John Gauntlett 1 January 1870 Knightsbridge, London, England, United Kingdom Died 1951 (age 81) United States Age on Lusitania 45 Ticket number 46090 Cabin number B 30 Traveling with – Albert Hopkins (colleague) – Samuel Knox (colleague) Lifeboat Collapsible Rescued by – …

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Captain James Blaine Miller

Captain James Miller (1883 – 1915), 32, was of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Service. He was from Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. He had been involved in the heroic rescue of the steamer Tahoma off the Alaskan coast in 1914. In 1915, he was to report to a new job in Washington, D.C., but …

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Mr. Robert Rankin

Robert Rankin Saloon Passenger Saved image: Michael Poirer/US National Archives Born Robert Rankin 23 March 1882 Ithaca, New York, United States Died 10 August 1959 (age 76) Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States Age on Lusitania 33 Ticket number 46151 Cabin number E 43 Traveling with Many colleagues on board, but on different tickets Lifeboat 11 Rescued …

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