A Passenger's Palate

Did you survive?

A Queen's End

• Sank by German U-boat torpedo on May 7, 1915
• One Torpedo, Two Explosions
• 11.5 miles off the Irish Coast
• Sank in 18 short minutes
• 764 Survivors; 1,198 Deaths; Survival Rate 38.5%

U-20

What's on Today's Menu?

Chateau Potatoes

Saute Chicken Lyonnaise

• Completed in 1913
• Diesel-powered
• 210 feet long, 20 feet wide, 27 feet tall
• 15 knots on the surface; 9 knots underwater
• One 3.5 inch gun mounted on her deck
• Four Tubes to fire torpedoes

Eclairs

Take It Down a Notch

Second Class Dining

Room

Third Class Dining

Room

Will we ever really know what happened?

Ticket to Ride

• First Class: $115
• Second Class: Discounted from $70 to $50
• Parlor Suites: $1,500
• Regal Suites: $2,250

Noteable Passengers

Can you guess how much this equates to in today's money?

Alfred Vanderbilt

Charles Frohman

Second and Third Class Cabins

Charles Lauriat Jr.

Justus Forman

Treff!

Lusitania Quick Facts

First Class Cabins

Sailing in Wartime

"Torpedo hits starboard side close behind the bridge. An unusually great detonation follows with a very strong explosive cloud (cloud reaches far beyond the forward funnel). The explosion of the torpedo must have been acompanied by a second one (boiler or coal or powder?)." -Schwieger's Log Entry

• Launched in 1906
• 785 feet long; Largest in the world when first launched
• First ship to cross the Atlantic in less than 5 days
• Completed 201 sailings across the Atlantic
• Final Sailing: May 1, 1915 From New York
• 1,959 passengers and crew on board

Captain William Turner

• Built to military specifications
• Armed Merchant Cruiser
• Funnels possibly painted black
• Passengers slept on deck and in lounges on final night of the voyage.

• Born in October 1856 in Liverpool
• His father was a naval captain.
• Joined Cunard Line in 1878
• "A connoisseur of good food and wine, with a preference for German food" and "enjoyed smoking his favorite pipe". -Norman, Turner's son
• Admiralty brought charges against him for the sinking. He was exonerated.

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Let's Talk Cargo

Dining in Style

• 45,000 lbs of beef
• 17,000 lbs of mutton
• 40,000 eggs
• 2,000 chickens
• 5,500 lbs of butter
• 3,000 gallons of milk

You Get What You Pay For

• 2/3 of cargo consisted of items for military use
• 4.2 million rounds of Remington .303 rifle ammo
• 1,248 cases of shrapnel-filled artillery shells

Second to None

Walther von Schwieger

The Aftermath

• Born in 1885
• Son of long established Berlin family
• Joined Imperial Navy in 1903 at age 18
• Took command of the U-20 in 1914.
• Known for his kindess and good humor
• "She was a jolly boat, the U-20, and a kindly boat."-Rudolph Zentner, junior officer
• Always had at least one dog aboard