Photographs of Q.S.T.S. “Lusitania” is a photographic album put together by the Cunard Steamship Company Ltd, and held by the DeGolyer Library, at Southern Methodist University.
Regal suites of the RMS Lusitania
This album contains amazing photographs of exterior and interior views of the Quadruple Screw Turbine Steamship Lusitania. The Lusitania, the sister ship to the Mauretania, and was torpedoed by a German U-boat during World War I in 1915 off the coast of Ireland, sinking in 18 minutes. Over 1000 passengers died. Besides civilians, the Lusitania was carrying large amounts of rifle ammunition.
Photographs in the album are by Bedford Lemere & Co., architectural photographers to His Majesty the King.
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