5/10/2023 0 Comments Lusitania by Greg King![]() ![]() They ran into a small corridor just outside the Smoking Room to escape the water and debris raining down on the deck as they entered, Lusitania lurched to starboard, hurling them against the wall. "By Jove, they've got us!" Friend cried out, slamming his fist against his hand. Looking out across the water, "a marvelous blue and very dazzling in the sunlight," she said, "How could the officers ever see a periscope there?" Suddenly, the impact came she likened the sound to "an arrow, entering the canvas and straw of a target, magnified a thousand times," rapidly followed by another "dull" explosion from somewhere below. Lusitania was going so slow that she thought the engines had stopped. ![]() ![]() Walking the deck with Edwin Friend, Theodate Pope noted that ![]()
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