History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Helen Secchi Second Cabin Passenger Saved [No Picture Provided] Born Edith Helen West 1879 Manchester, England, United Kingdom Died 1939 Southport, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Age on Lusitania 35 Lifeboat 13 Rescued by Stormcock Citizenship British Residence New York City, New York, United States Other name(s) Edith Secchi Spouse(s) Herbert Secchi (1910 – 1920, divorced) …
Image courtesy Roy Baker, Curator of the Leece Museum, Isle of Man Wanderer PL11 (Peel 11) was a sail-powered fishing boat from in Peel, Isle of Man, that was fishing off the coast of Ireland when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk on Friday, 7 May 1915. Wanderer was the first rescue vessel on the scene …
Frederick Hugh O’Neill (1863 – 1944), 52, was an able-bodied seaman serving in the deck department of the Lusitania on the ship’s final voyage. He survived. He was in the baggage room when the torpedo hit, and he and Boatswain John Davies were able to take the elevator out of the room before the electricity …
Lifeboat 15 was one of the (if not the) last boats to be lowered, and was under the command of First Officer Arthur Rowland Jones. As the boat was leaving, it got tangled in the Marconi wires that threatened to drag the lifeboat down with the ship. Several people in the water hanging onto the sides …
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