That doesn't sound like the same book. I've been looking for it, and I think it's in my big bedroom bookshelf. I have a cast on my RH foot, and doing anything is hard work.
Original Message: ----------------- From: Rich [email protected] Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:16:27 -0500 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Lusitania This may have been the paperback in question: Seven days to disaster: The sinking of the Lusitania Author: Des Hickey Edition: first (1981) All editions Publisher: Collins Paperback: 336 pages Paperback Paperback (first) , 1981 Paperback (first) , 1982 Paperback (first) , 1981 Hardcover Hardcover , 1988 from $40.00 ISBN-13: 9780002168823 ISBN-10: 0002168820 On 09/21/2011 09:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: > There was really not much mystery to the Lusitania sinking, if you find > your information in the right places. I have a paperback book from probably > 35-40 years ago,which told the whole story. The ship was armed, with > concealed gun mounts, and was carrying a lot of munitions in its hold. The > German government published a full page ad in the New York papers, telling > that the ship was a warship, nand that if it were sighted on the high seas, > it would be torpedoed, as a routine act of war. If any Americans set sail > on the ship, they would do so at their own risk. I've seen this ad > reproduced elsewhere since. Reprints from the ship's manifest are shown in > this book, and show tons of munitions aboard. > > In addition, the captain had orders, after he sailed, tht brought him into > the area where it was torpedoed. > > After the torpedo hit the ship, there were numerous secondary explosions > from the ship. Guess why. The tale tells rthat the sub commander didn't > realize the ship's identity until the torpedo was under way. He was said > the remark "My God, That's the Lusitania!!". > . > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Steven Medved [email protected] > Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:53:57 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Phono-L] Lusitania > > > > And just to add to that........Elbert Hubbard was on his way to England, > on > the Lusitania, to speak out against World War I, when it was sunk by the > Germans......he didn't survive. Monday, August 08, 2011AN AMERICAN > multi-millionaire has moved a step closer to realising one of his lifes > great ambitions solving the enduring mystery of the sinking of the > Lusitania. Gregg Bemis, 83, who has owned the wreck since 1968, oversaw > operations off the south coast on Saturday as divers began cutting through > the hull of the wreck. It was 25 nautical miles south of the Old Head of > Kinsale en route from New York to Liverpool in May 1915 when it was hit > under its bridge by a torpedo fired from a German U-boat. > > The explosion triggered a mystery secondary explosion which ripped the > hull of the 790ft (241m) vessel apart. > > It sank by the head in less than 18 minutes, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 > people on board, including 39 children and dozens of Americans. > > The sinking caused massive controversy because the vessel was carrying > civilian passengers, including eminent and wealthy politicians, artists, > the art collector Hugh Lane, academics and businessmen. > > > Read more: > http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/kfgbmhojidcw/rss2/#ixzz1YX2wRsEr > > > http://www.archaeology.org/0901/trenches/lusitania.html The nearly > century-old debate about whether the passenger liner > Lusitania was transporting British war munitions when torpedoed by a > German U-boat is over. Physical evidence of just such a cargo has been > recovered > from the wreck, which rests 12 miles off the Irish coast in 300 feet of > murky, > turbulent water. > Bullets from the ship now confirm it was > carrying military cargo. Lusitania was sunk off County Cork on May 7, 1915. > The attack killed > 1,198 people, including 128 Americans, and helped push the United States > into > World War I. Ever since the ship went down, there have been suspicions that > Lusitania was carrying live munitions. Under the rules of war, that would > have made the liner a legitimate target, as the Germans maintained at the > time. > > The British government has always been evasive about the presence of > munitions on Lusitania. Two cargo manifests were submitted; the second, > filed after the ship sailed, indicated there were light munitions on board. > Some > believe the ship was carrying much more, however, and that the British Navy > attempted to destroy the wreck in the 1950s to conceal its military cargo. > Now a team led by County Waterford-based diver Eoin McGarry, on behalf of > Lusitania's American owner, Gregg Bemis, has recovered live ammunition > from the wreck. Bemis was granted a five-year license in 2007 by the Irish > government to conduct limited excavations at the site. He originally bought > the > vessel in 1968 for $2,400 from the Liverpool& London War Risks Insurance > Association. > This past September, Bemis's team used a remotely operated vehicle to > penetrate the wreck. They were able to clearly identify a vast amount of > ammunition in an area of Lusitania not believed to have carried cargo. > The Remington .303 caliber bullets the team discovered on the ship had been > used > by the British military during World War I. Ten of the bullets were brought > to > the surface. > "Further research needs to be conducted, but if the discovered ammunition > was > found in an area where cargo was not known to be stored on board, it > strongly > supports the argument that the Lusitania was functioning as more than a > passenger liner," says Fionnbar Moore, senior archaeologist with the > Underwater > Archaeology Unit of the Irish Department of Environment, which monitored > the > dive. > The bullets are in the hands of Irish authorities, who under maritime law > are > now responsible for establishing their owner. Further expeditions will > search > for additional evidence of munitions. > "The charge that the Lusitania was carrying war materiel is valid," > says Bemis. "She was a legitimate target for the German submarine." > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org > > _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
