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Sinking of RMS Lusitania - Captain Turner

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1915Date range
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Chronological records

1915

David Dow7 May 1915

Kinsale · Warfare / World War, 1st

William Thomas Turner, not David Dow, commanded Lusitania on her final voyage and survived the sinking off southern Ireland.

Names involved

David Dow

Provenance

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