Word: lusitania
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Then Sir Gilbert came back into the room and said: "This is something awful-big shipwreck. I suppose it is the Lusitania. No it's not the Lusitania. It's a thing that ran into an iceberg-the Titanic, and a singing of hymns. I feel as if somebody was crashing a fiddle or a cello, or breaking up a musical instrument. People are being picked up out of the water and saved...
...success of this feat suggests that it may be possible to salvage between $4,000,000 and $6,000,000 in gold and valuables that sank with the Lusitania. The Lusitania, sunk by a German submarine in 1915, lies in 42 fathoms of water off the southern coast of Ireland. It opens up vistas of salvaging sunken Spanish argosies with their almost legendary treasures...
According to a decision of the Germano-American Mixed Claims Commission at Washington, the German Government must pay $1,000,000 to U. S. citizens for claims arising out of the sinking of the Lusitania...
Robert W. Bonynge, a Manhattan lawyer representing the U. S. State Department, filed a claim before the Mixed Claims Commission in Washington on the behalf of twelve insurance companies for full payment of all losses of life and property sustained by American citizens in the sinking of the Lusitania...
...larger part of his fortune in a British hospital during the War. By peace time he found himself financially embarrassed. It was then that Miss Adams reconsidered her decision to retire (made on the death of her manager and lifelong friend, Charles Frohman, who went down with the Lusitania ) and trouped as Peter Pan for the better part of two years...