Perhaps it was that sense of having violated obligations deeper than law that so much tormented the Lusitania’s Captain Turner. He was subjected to accusations and humiliation at a casualty inquiry.

The Lusitania was out of control and starting to sink. “Lower the lifeboats to the rail,” Captain Turner ordered ... Since the Titanic sinking a few years earlier, ships were now required ...

One hundred years ago, on May 7, 1915, the Cunard luxury liner Lusitania was sunk by ... though he had his own motives. Turner was a staunch Cunard captain of the old school who had come to ...

The ocean liner's sinking by a German U-boat led ... at least up until that point." On the Lusitania's captain, William Thomas Turner He's kind of a captain of the old school — he referred ...

It was a foggy morning as Captain William Turner navigated the ... torpedo through the side of the Lusitania, triggering an explosion inside the ship, and sinking it within 18 minutes.

100 years ago this week the famous Lusitania ship was sunk by German U-boats as it headed for Liverpool. Almost 1200 people died, many of them from the city. The ship's captain William Turner ...

Erik Larson's new book about the sinking of the liner Lusitania by a German U-boat ... Larson gives both men their due. Captain Turner, a self-described "old-fashioned sailorman" trained up ...

One hundred years ago today the famous Lusitania ship was sunk by German U-boats as it headed for Liverpool. Nearly 1200 people died, many of them from the city. The ship's captain William Turner ...

He's kind of a captain ... justify sinking a passenger vessel with 1,200 passengers aboard — men, women and children? I'm not in a position to say. On whether the sinking of the Lusitania ...

On whether the sinking of the Lusitania represented a ... Navy — trying to hold the Lusitania's captain responsible He certainly attempted to hold Turner responsible. Whether or not he actually ...