 Overleigh Gallery 5 |
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| Another Thomas Hughes! This memorial is to Thomas Owen Hughes who was a storeman who went down on the RMS Lusitania. There is an interesting Lusitania collection at the Merseyside Maritime Museum within easy reach of Chester. The Lusitania sailed from New York on 1 May 1915 with 1,962 passengers and crew. On 7 May 1915, at 2.10 pm, she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-20 off Kinsale, Ireland. She sank in under twenty minutes with the loss of 1,201 lives. |
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