RMS Lusitiana last pictures 7 May 1915

[observer]

 

https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_19106/?sp=1&r=-0.65,-0.07,2.301,1.4,0

Photographs of the RMS Lusitiana taken 7 May 1915 by wireless operator David McCormack. The top two pictures were taken prior to the sinking; the damaged film at the bottom taken during the sinking according "Oceanliners Design" program on the RMS Lusitina show left to right:A crowd of passengers; an overturned lifeboat and a ships ventilator on the deck of the sinkng vessel. From the "Daily Sketch" May 11,1915

 

Remarks the Germans sinking a ship with contraband but the British won the propaganda waer with the US Public making it less neutral and less pro-german {Although the last was the release of the Zimmeran telegraph that tipped the balence against Germany}

https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_19105/?sp=1

https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_19107/?sp=1

[KizmeRD]

123 Americans died on the Lusitania, including a number of prominent citizens - so British propaganda wasn’t a strong factor.

The independent US Press understandably reported the story, and the indignation felt by many in the USA was genuine.

MB