Lusitania exhibition planned for Queen Victoria
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Memorabilia from the sunken Lusitania will be on display onboard Cunard’s Queen Victoria ship next year as part of a commemoration cruise.
The exhibition will be on a departure leaving Southampton on 3 May 2015 and on 7 May will mark exactly 100 years since Lusitania was torpedoed while en-route from New York to Liverpool during the First World War.
The itinerary will include calls at St Peter Port, Guernsey; Le Havre, Cobh and Dublin. Cobh will be visited on the 7 May as the closest port to where the ship sank approximately 11 miles off the old Head of Kinsale in Ireland.
Cunard has enlisted the help of historian Eric Sauder to produce the exhibition, which will include china, silver, brochures and souvenirs.
Angus Struthers, Cunard director said: “The sinking of Lusitania was a tragedy and we intend to mark the anniversary of her sinking on 7 May 2015 in a fitting and respectful way. But her story was also one of triumph in the technical achievement of her construction and her glittering career from 1907 until the outbreak of war.”
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