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commemorative medal / Lusitania, 1915

Medal, German, commemoration of the sinking of the Lusitania, 1915. On obverse, a depiction of the sinking Lusitania, 'Keine Bann Ware' above, below - Der groundampter Lusitania durch ein Deutsches tauchbooy versenkt 5 Mai 1915. Reverse depicts a Cunard Line ticket booth manned by a skeletal...

 

Bible / Lusitania, 1915

Book, copy of King James' Bible, issued by the Cunard Steam Ship Company for use on the S.S. Lusitania. Red cover stamped in gold with the ship name. Published in London by Eyre and Spottiswoode Bible Warehouse Ltd., at 33 Paternoster Row. Also located in Edinburgh and New York.

 

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,...

 

life vest / Lusitania, 1915

Life jacket, from the steamship "Lusitania" of the Cunard Line, torpedoed off Queenstown by a German Submarine on the 7th May, 1915.

 

oar / Lusitania, 1915

Oar, cut short, branded 'Lusitania'. From the steamship 'Lusitania' of the Cunard Line, torpedoed off Queenstown by a German Submarine on the 7th May, 1915. Picked up by the donor off the Kilkee coast, Co. Clare on or about the 20th August, 1915. Length 202cm x width 12.7cm

 

medal / Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915

Medal, cast iron, Sinking of the Lusitania. A sinking ship, around above 'Keine Bann Ware'. In exergue 'Der Grossdampfer, Lusitania - durch ein Deutches Tauchboot versenkt 5 May 1915'. Reverse: a crowd of people approaching Death (a skeleton), who sells tickets at the Cunard Line ticket booth,...