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life ring / Lusitania, 1915

Life-buoy, from the steamship "Lusitania" of the Cunard Line, torpedoed off Queenstown by a German Submarine on the 7th May, 1915. The buoy was picked up 72 miles NNW off the Fastnet Light, a fortnight after the disaster, by the Dublin Steam Trawler "Dean Swift". Given by R.J. Richardson Esq. Sec, Dublin Steam Trawling Co.;

Lusitania, 1915


Object Number:
HH:1916.1


Institution:
NMI


Date:
1915


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Place of production:
England


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