Owning a fragment of history — a Gettysburg bullet, a Coolidge campaign button — is fun, so in 1968 Gregg Bemis became an owner of the Lusitania. This 787-feet-long passenger liner has been ...

At about 2 p.m. on May 7, 1915, Theodate Pope of Farmington, and her companion, Harvard man, Edwin Friend, were strolling along the promenade deck of the ocean liner R.M.S. Lusitania on the starboa… ...

We follow the cat-and-mouse game between Lusitania captain William Thomas Turner and U-20 commander Walther Schwieger, who launches the fatal torpedo.

The story begins with introducing the reader to the captain of the Lusitania, William Thomas Turner. Under Turner the Lusitania broke all records for speed, one of the era’s great transatlantic ...

Even the Lusitania's captain, William Turner, said his vessel was too fast for submarines to pose a threat. But at that very moment, the German sub designated U-20 was heading towards the Irish ...

William Thomas Turner, the Lusitania’s rugged and experienced captain, was not made aware of the codebreakers’ efforts, but he did receive assurances that the Royal Navy would provide an ...

On May 7, 1915, a German submarine sank the passenger steamer Lusitania as it approached its destination in Great Britain on the way from New York. According to official records, of the 1,959 ...

Lockdales auctioneers in England are offering the public the chance to own “the ill-fated Lusitania captain’s medals” of Commander William Turner, OBE, the captain of the passenger liner ...