Lusitania Collection (page 2)

LUSITANIA SINKS 1915
The Lusitania sinks after being hit by German torpedoes Date: 1915

Lusitania Cross Section
Cross section of the Cunard passenger liner which, at the time of her launch, is the largest of her kind. Date: 1906

WWI Poster, Take up the Sword of Justice
Design by Bernard Partridge (1861-1945), Take Up the Sword of Justice, Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster. One of the most popular, much plagiarised posters of WW1

VIRIATHUS (190-139 BC). Leader of the Lusitanian people that resisted Roman expansion into the regions of western Hispania. Engraving

The Damage on the Lusitania by the first torpedo
A diagram showing the actually broken and the area weaked by the explosion. Date: 7 May 1915

Lusitania Menu
1907 cabin tea menu from the passenger liner Lusitania which was sunk eight years later in May 1915 when hit by a torpedo by a German U-boat during WWI

RMS Lusitania - en route to New York, August 1912
RMS Lusitania - Hutchinson Archive. Original photograph taken on board the Lusitania en route to New York on 22 August 1912

President Woodrow Wilson's head against the Stars & Stripes
Wilson strove to keep America neutral but the German U-boat campaign, and the sinking of the Lusitania, forced his hand. WW1 Date: circa 1917

Passengers of the Lusitania
A page from The Sketch reporting on prominent personalities, on board the Lusitania, sunk by a German torpedo on 7 May 1915. Top left is Lady Allan, wife of Sir Hugh M

Germans showing guns on the Lusitania 1915
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on 7 May 1915 during the First World War, by a German U-boat, hitting the Lusitania twice with torpedoes, sinking within 18 minutes

Sinking of the Lusitania
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915, by torpedo off the south-west of Ireland, the German act which more than all else determined Americas entry into the First World

The RMS Lusitania, British ocean liner in port

Tank going into action
Photograph: Tank going into action. From an album of 76 official photographs, 1916-1917. Associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)

Cartoon, In Memory of the Lusitania, WW1
Cartoon, In Memory of the Lusitania. Two sailors fire on a German submarine in retaliation for the lost ship. Date: 1917

Portugal. Roman Temple of Evora. Corinthian style. 1st centu
Portugal. Roman Temple of Evora. Improperly called Diana Temple, this 1st-century temple was probably dedicated to the Cult of Emperor Augustus. Corinthian style

Portugal. Evora. Church of St. Francis. Manueline style. 1475
Portugal. Evora. Church of St. Francis or Chapel of the Bones. Gothic style with some Manueline influences betwwen 1475-1550. Desing of Martim Lourenco

Roman Villa of Pisoes. Polychrome mosaic with geometric moti
Roman Art. Portugal. Roman Villa of Pisoes. 1st to 4th century. Polychrome mosaic decorated with geometric motifs. Detail. Near Beja. El Alentejo

Roman Villa of Pisoes. El Alentejo. Portugal
Roman Villa of Pisoes (1st to 4th century A.D.). Roman Bath (Termae). Hypocaust. Near Beja. El Alentejo. Portugal

Milreu ruins. Roman Villa (1st - 4th century A. D. ). Estoi. A
Ruins of Milreu. Roman Villa (1st - 4th century A.D.). Mosaic detail. Estoi, near Faro. Algarve. Portugal

Head of God Endovelicus. 1st century. Archaeological Museum of Lisbon. Portugal

Cunard Wharf, Boston
Cunard Wharf within Boston Harbour was owned by the Cunard Line Company who had been awarded the first British Trans Atlantic steamship mail contract in 1839

Lusitania Memorial
The Lustiania Memorial, Pier Head, Liverpool, England. The Lusitania, a Cunard liner, was torpedoed by the Germans in 1915 on a return journey from New York to Liverpool. Date: 1950s

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
ARTHUR GWYNNE VANDERBILT Clubman and horse breeder, fortunate to secure a passage on an Atlantic liner to England : unfortunately, that liner was the Lusitania. Date: 1877 - 1915

Diving Suit 1922
Diving suit designed for work on the Lusitania, sunk during World War One and lying at a depth of 80 metres Date: 1922

DIVERS AND LUSITANIA
American scientist/diver J D Craig descends to a depth of 80 metres to photograph the wreck of the Lusitania, torpedoed during World War One Date: 1922

Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915), art dealer best known for establishing the Municipal Gallery for Modern Art in Dublin in 1908. Died tragically when on board the Lusitania which was torpedoed by a German

WW1 - Punch comments on Lusitania sinking
WW1 - An illustration showing Britannia and Lusitania standing together. Britannia personified as Britain, and America as Lusitania

Sweeping up flour after attack on German bakery, WW1
Sweeping up the remains of flour emptied in the street by the crowd after an attack on a German bakery in East India Dock Road

Elegant Edwardian couple with child outside house
A photograph of James Johnson Battersby and his wife Nancy (nee Nidd) on the steps of their house Dunluce in the Davenport area of Stockport. The child is James Larratt Battersby, their son

Edwardian group in the garden of Strathclyde, Offerton Road, Stockport. Standing with his sister and brothers is James Johnson Battersby who survived the Lusitania sinking ten years later

WWI Poster, Remember the Lusitania
Remember the Lusitania! Enlist Today. Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster in letterpress, using emotive anti-German propaganda. Date: 1916

The Lusitania at landing stage, Liverpool Date: circa 1913

RMS Lusitania, Cunard cruise ship, at the Liverpool landing stage. circa 1910s

Copy of German original medallion - sinking of the Lusitania
This is a British strike of the German original medallion made to celebrate the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine on the 7th May 1915

Cunard Liner Lusitania 1915
The Cunard liner Lusitania was torpedoed by German submarine off the south coast of Ireland on 7th May 1915, and sank within half an hour, of the 1, 906 persons on board, only 708 were saved

The Lusitania struck by a torpedo
A page from the Illustrated London News showing three sketches of a series of five by Oliver Bernard, a scenic artist at the Covent Garden Opera, who was on board the Lusitania, and survived

Hidden lesson of the Mauretanias record by G. H. Davis
The hidden lesson of the Mauretanias record. Showing the Cunard liner Mauretania in grey war paint, being convoyed across the Atlantic by a battleship cruiser

Lusitania anti-German riots
Chrisp Street anti-German Lusitania riots and break in at A. Schoenfelds tobacco and cigar store, Poplar, east end of London. Date: 1915

Jerviss Steam Yachts - Fairground Ride
Miles Jerviss Steam Yachts - Fairground Ride Date: circa 1939

Lusitania - Saved and Missing
A page from The Illustrated London News, illustrated with photographs of some of the survivors of the Lusitania, along with pictures of some of those who perished

Lift / deck A, Cunard liner ?Lusitania?

Interior view of ?smoke room? of Cunard liner ?Lusitania?

Dining saloon of the Lusitania
The dining room was prettily decorated gold and white, and the domed roof bore oval paintings at intervals. Date: 1915

Little girl rescued from the Lusitania 1915
Little girl clutching her dolls, survived the sinking of the Lusitania, but both parents drowned. Date: 1915

RMS. Lusitania, hit by torpedos off Kinsale Head, Ireland. Photograph of drawing, made for the New York Herald and the London Sphere, shows the RMS

The sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine 1915
The giant cunard liner, Lusitania, in the First World War, was attacked by a German U-boat on 7 May 1915 and sank in 18 minutes killing 1198 people

The sinking of the Lusitania on the fateful voyage 1915
During the First World War, the British Ocean liner the Lusitania, was sunk after a fatal blow dealt by the striking of two torpedoes, by a German submarine on the 7 May 1915

Lusitania - First sight of the approaching Torpedo 1915
Passengers that were on the deck of the Lusitania, were looking out to sea, suddenly they saw a white streak close to the surface coming straight for the vessel. 7 May 1915

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