He's kind of a captain of the old school — he referred ... One of the really amazing things about the Lusitania saga was that, at the time, there existed in the admiralty a super-secret spy ...

However, no information was communicated to the captain of the Lusitania. That has led to a decades-old debate over whether the tragedy was the result of a mistake or conspiracy? Evidence cannot ...

No. Well, nor did they tell Captain Turner, how was the captain of the Lusitania, nor did they tell him that any of this was known. They knew precisely the patrol zone that the submarine was going ...

The Lusitania was thought to be immune from such ... Turner was a staunch Cunard captain of the old school who had come to Cunard after serving in the hard school of sailing vessels.

Captain Turner yelled. The engines did not respond. He ordered the helmsman to steer toward the coast of Ireland, clearly visible 12 miles away. The helm did not respond. The Lusitania was out of ...

Was the sinking of the Lusitania just bad luck, or something more sinister? Her captain, William Thomas Turner, believed she would have a British naval escort into port. None appeared. The British ...

On Walther Schwieger, the captain of the German submarine — the U-20 — that sank the Lusitania I found [him] to be such an interesting character, and frankly I wouldn't be surprised if readers ...