Description: | Medal commemorating the sinking of the SS 'Lusitania', 1915. Obverse: The figure of America draped and wearing a star-pointed crown, her right hand upraised holding a sword, rising from the deep, the sea breaking (right) a fleet in distance. Legend: 'ULTRIX . AMERICA . JURIS 1917. U.S.A. 1918.' Reverse: Field divided, below, starboard quarter view of SS 'Lusitania' sinking, stern in air, a boat bottom upwards in foreground; above a child drowning, head and hands above water. Legend: 'LUSITANIA MAY 7 1915'.
caption: Medal commemorating the sinking of the SS 'Lusitania', 1915; obverse
caption: Medal commemorating the sinking of the SS 'Lusitania', 1915; reverse |