11 May
1872: second cabin passenger Joseph Glancy is born in Clones, Ireland.
1910: saloon passenger Beatrice Witherbee elopes with Alfred Witherbee
1915: Lusitania departs New York for the last time on crossing 202. |
22 May
1912: second cabin passenger Beata Stevens (future Ferrier) arrives in Quebec. |
33 May
1883: Third Class Passenger Harold Slight is born in Trinity Square, Southwark, London, England.
1890: Able-bodied seaman Leonard Thompson is born in Liverpool, England. |
44 May |
55 May
1890: saloon passenger Dorothy Braithwaite is born.
1915: U-20 torpedoes and sinks Earl of Lathom. |
66 May
1879: saloon passengers Charles and Mary Plamondon are married.
1915: Seamen’s Charities benefit concert is held on Lusitania.
1915: U-20 torpedoes and sinks SS Candidate.
1915: U-20 torpedoes and sinks SS Centurion.
1918: Last day of testimony in the Mayer hearings |
77 May
1915: U-20 torpedoes and sinks Lusitania off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,192 lives and 768 survivors. Four survivors die in the following months. |
88 May
1915: Cork County Coroner John Horgan opens the first inquest to the Lusitania sinking. Inquest goes through 10 May.
1947: saloon passenger Isaac Lehmann dies in New York City at age 67.
1950: saloon passenger William Pierpoint dies in Liverpool at the age of 86. |
99 May
1915: Cork County Coroner John Horgan opens the first inquest to the Lusitania sinking. Inquest goes through 10 May.
1871: Alexander Campbell is born in Scotland
1880: saloon steward Harry Allport is born in Stepney, London, England.
1970: Lusitania waiter Charles Gouder dies at age 81. |
1010 May
1915: a mass funeral is held for Lusitania victims outside Queenstown, Ireland at the Old Church Cemetery.
1986: William McMillan Adams dies in Princeton, NJ, USA at the age of 90. |
1111 May |
1212 May
1915: U-20 breaks radio silence and takes credit for sinking Lusitania.
1992: third class passenger Edith Williams dies in Sacramento, CA, USA. |
1313 May
1876: saloon passenger Charles Jeffery is born in Kenosha, WI, USA.
1915: third class passengers John Welsh and Gerda Neilson are married in Chorlton, Manchester, England, UK.
1915: United States sends first American note to Germany. |
1414 May |
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1616 May
1885: saloon passenger Mary Hammond is born in Hoboken, NJ, USA. |
1717 May
1871: saloon passenger Frederick McMurtry is born in Elizabethville, Ontario, Canada
1887: second cabin passenger Osmund Wordsworth is born in Glaston, Rutland, England, UK
1887: second cabin passenger Osmund Wordsworth is born.
1959: second cabin passenger Archibald Donald dies in Pasadena, CA, at age 70. |
1818 May
1895: Able-bodied seaman John Morton is born in Great Crosby, England |
1919 May
1899: saloon passenger Virginia Loney is born in Skaneateles, NY, USA
1977: second cabin passenger Nellie Hampshire dies in Central Falls, RI, USA. |
2020 May |
2121 May |
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2323 May
1872: saloon passenger Owen Kenan is born in Dupin County, NC, USA. |
2424 May
1915: body of saloon passenger Carlton Brodrick arrives in New York on New York for burial.
1915: body of saloon passenger Charles Frohman arrives in New York for burial.
1915: body of saloon passenger Gustaf Nyblom arrives in Stockholm, Sweden for burial. |
2525 May
1915: funeral of saloon passenger Charles Frohman at Temple Emmanu-El, New York City, NY, USA. |
2626 May |
2727 May
1918: second cabin passenger Cyril Pells dies in action in France. |
2828 May
1859: saloon passenger Maitland Kempson is born. |
2929 May
1914: Empress of Ireland is struck by Storstad and sinks in 14 minutes with great loss of life. Fanny Mounsey, wife of William Mounsey and mother of Sarah Lund, is among the lost. |
3030 May
1879: saloon passenger Anne Shymer is born in Logan’s Port, IN, USA.
1914: Aquitania begins her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York. |
3131 May
1915: body of saloon passenger Leslie Mason arrives in New York aboard Lapland.
1915: George Copping's body arrives in New York aboard Lapland |
11 June |
22 June
1877: saloon passenger Ellen Elizabeth Chapman marries William Chapman at St. Philips Anglican Church in Toronto
1915: body of saloon passenger Caroline Kennedy is shipped back to the US aboard Cymric
1915: funeral of saloon passenger Herbert Stone in New York City
1915: George Copping's funeral
1988: fireman John O’Connell dies at age 92. |
33 June |
44 June
1915: funeral of saloon passenger Amelia Macdona at St. Stephen's Chapel, New York City. |
1872: second cabin passenger Joseph Glancy is born in Clones, Ireland.
1910: saloon passenger Beatrice Witherbee elopes with Alfred Witherbee
1915: Lusitania departs New York for the last time on crossing 202.
1912: second cabin passenger Beata Stevens (future Ferrier) arrives in Quebec.
1947: saloon passenger Isaac Lehmann dies in New York City at age 67.
1915: United States sends first American note to Germany.
