Ocean Liners

The Lusitania
"Lusitania sank in 18 minutes, 8 miles (13 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale. 1,198 people died with her, including almost a hundred children.^[31] Afterwards, the Cunard line offered local fishermen and sea merchants a cash reward for the bodies floating all throughout the Irish Sea, some floating as far away as the Welsh coast. In all, only 289 bodies were recovered, 65 of which were never identified. The Cunard Steamship Company announced the official death toll of 1,195 on 1st March 1916. The bodies of many of the victims were buried at either Lusitania's destination, Queenstown, or the Church of St. Multose in Kinsale, but the bodies of the remaining 885 victims were never recovered."

RMS Oceanic
"She was wrecked in a flat calm and clear weather. She was the first Allied passenger ship to be lost in the war."

S.S. Alaska
"The Alaska was a record breaking British passenger liner that won the Blue Riband for the Guion Line as the fastest liner on the Atlantic in 1882"

S.S. City of Berlin
"City of Berlin was a British passenger liner that won the Blue Riband for the Inman Line in 1875 as the fastest liner on the Atlantic."

S.S. Prinzessin Victoria Luise
"Almost five years after her debut, her illustrious career came to an end while on a West Indian cruise. On the night of December 16 the ship departed Kingston when her commander Captain Brunswig mistook the lighthouse at Plumb Point for that at the westernmost point of Port Royal. Heading north at 14 knots, the ship hit and climbed onto the rocks bow first at about 9 o’clock in the evening. In an attempt to dislodge the ship, the engines where put full astern to no avail."

S.S. Rotterdam

RMS Mauretania
"RMS Mauretania (also known as the "Maury") was an ocean liner built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend, Tyne and Wear for the British Cunard Line, and launched on 20 September 1906. At the time, she was the largest and fastest ship in the world."

S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm

All photos were found at Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection they are all dated between 1890 and 1920.

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