![]() Lunch was in the process of breaking up when the torpedo struck. It was not suggested that families stick together, and children were allowed to move about the ship at will. No war zone precautions were in effect among the passengers. ![]() ![]() Circumstances that day worked against children, and against easy evacuation of entire families. Only a handful of the Lusitania ’s families, and we are expanding the term ‘families’ to include mothers traveling with children, survived intact. Her daughter survived, she found a place in a lifeboat, and she lost no one that day. Terrible as certain aspects of Emily Anderson’s story were, she was actually among the more fortunate of the Lusitania mothers. Most did not survive at all.īy Jim Kalafus, Michael Poirier, Cliff Barry and Peter Kelly Cecelia Owens.Ĭourtesy of Carol Keeler Ronald and Reginald Owens.Ĭourtesy of Carol Keeler Cecelia and Hubert Owens. Only a handful of the Lusitania ’s families, and we are expanding the term ‘families’ to include mothers traveling with children, survived intact.
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