This week on q a our guest is erik larson out with his book dead wake. With world war one being fought in europe, the lusitania liners sailed to liverpool, england with 2,000 passengers and crew on board. Cspan erik larson, your new book, dead wake, you start off first sentence, on the night of may 6, 1915, as his ship approach the coast of ireland, ccaptain William Thomas turner left the bridge and made his way to the first class lounge. What are you talking about . This is the night before the lusitania was torpedoed. The ship was that day, on friday the next day on friday, may 7th was going to enter the socalled the zone of war declared by the german navy. The water surrounding the u. K. Had become this they had designated this a zone of war. So the night before, captain turner was going into the lounge to actually talk to passengers during the intermission in the talent show, the nightly talent show, one of the features of transatlantic voyages. And he had some sobering news but al
Atlantic Container Line (ACL) and Cunard have marked the 40th anniversary of the ‘darkest day in ACL’s history’ when its vessel, the Liverpool registered SS Atlantic Conveyor, was struck by two.