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Description: | An important collection consisting of 140 ms/ts letters written to her and her son Mostyn by survivors from the RMS LUSITANIA and 47 ms/ts letters from relatives and acquaintances of survivors, May 1915 - May 1917, recounting their individual experiences of the disaster when the ship was sunk off the coast of Ireland on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat, including some excellent eye-witness accounts of the sinking and responding in particular to Mrs Prichard's appeal for information on the whereabouts of her son Richard Preston Prichard, who was a passenger aboard the ship during its fateful voyage. Also held with the collection are 20 ms/ts letters from official sources including the Cunard Steamship Company regarding their inquiries into the fate of Preston, as well as 28 ms/ts letters from friends offering their condolences, May 1915 - July 1916; 2 ms letters written by Mostyn in May 1915 while in Queenstown, Ireland where many of the bodies from the LUSITANIA were taken, describing his efforts to identify his brother; 14 ms letters from Mrs Prichard, returned to her undelivered, June 1915 - March 1916; and various related documents including printed handbills requesting information on Preston, ms/ts lists of passengers and crew from the LUSITANIA, two copies of a printed booklet advertising Boddy life jackets and several press cuttings regarding the disaster.
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Catalogue date 2001-09-25 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Prichard, G S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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