THE LUSITANIA’S LAST VOYAGE

Being a Narrative of the Torpedoing and Sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by a German Submarine off the Irish Coast May 7, 1915 BY CHARLES E. LAURIAT, Jr. ONE OF THE SURVIVORS With Illustrations BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1915 COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY CHARLES E. LAURIAT, JR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published October 1915 Copyright in Great Britain, Ireland, and British Colonies, and in all countries under the Convention, by Charles E. Lauriat, Jr. TO MY FATHER WHO TAUGHT ME IN BOYHOOD TO SWIM, AND TO KNOW NO FEAR OF THE SEA AND TO MY MOTHER WHO FOUNDED THE FAITH THAT HAS BROUGHT ME THROUGH ALL THINGS I DEDICATE THIS BOOK