The Lusitania Tragedy

By Daniel Taylor Brown

The RMS Lusitania passenger liner was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sank 11 miles off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915. 1,198 civilian lives were lost and 761 lived. Some survivors never told their stories but others in various ways spoke of their experiences.

Daniel Taylor Brown was one of those who survived and openly spoke out. He boldly chronicles his story and the accounts of some who also lived, but continues to tell of others who helplessly died during the attack and aftermath.

The reader cannot help but be transported to that time and place of great terror, loss and heroism. You will not only hear of a mans will to live and escape a rapidly sinking ship against extreme odds, but with many souls still on board he watched the doomed Lusitania sink. It goes on with the stabbing pain and helplessness of witnessing those in the water die. The overwhelming trauma continued for all in the life boats while they persevered defenselessly as a sea of death surrounded them. With passion Daniel Brown relates this shocking story to us.

In 1916 after his return to his residence at the National Soldiers Home in Southern California, Mr. Brown was invited to speak publically. His story is presented here with a style of writing that conveys not only his heart of grief for all who suffered and died, but of an accountability for those who were the perpetrators.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 26, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499018448

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Copyright © 2014 by Daniel Taylor Brown.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2014908796

ISBN:      Hardcover           978-1-4990-1843-1

                Softcover            978-1-4990-1842-4

                eBook                 978-1-4990-1844-8

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Contents

The Lusitania Tragedy

Resume

The R. M. S. Lusitania

The Voyage

How Some Survived

Scenes at the Aftermath of the Work of the Evil One

The Second Scene

The Third Scene

The Rescue

Number of Survivors

The Air Raid of London September, 1915

Miscellaneous Remarks

An Ironical Incident

Conclusion

Abide With Me

Author’s Biography

. . . the German people possess a philosophy of life that takes its roots in hell. Unless they discard this and bring their thinking into line with that of enlightened nations, we will… From a New York paper, October 18, 1918.

D. T. B.

National Soldiers Home,

Sawtelle, California

May 1919

Dedicated to those who suffered and died because of the now historical crime of the Lusitania.

GOD is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.

Be still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen I will be exalted in the earth.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me.

Psalms 46 and 23

The Lusitania Tragedy

An Address

By

Daniel Taylor Brown

Ladies and Gentlemen:

His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of Germany, through his agents, prepared a grave for a large number of yellow-haired, prattling, innocent babies, silvery-haired women, young women, aged men and others in which I was included and blew us all into it. His majesty’s instrument being a torpedo, launched from a submerged submarine with scientific, deadly aim at the merchant ship Lusitania carrying us on a peaceful errand on one of the international highways of the world, the Atlantic Ocean. The commander of his majesty’s sea offal was elevated to the status of hero for the successful execution of his master’s orders. You have before you, therefore, a man from the grave.

There is pleasure for me in being present and I am proud of the honor of being allowed to stand before you. My object in being present is to give you, from my view points, an unbiased, accurate description and account of the ghastly wholesale murder, as the coroner’s jury at Kinsale, Ireland, termed this bloody blot on the pages of the history of the German empire and with my reflections and

Reviews for The Lusitania Tragedy

[cyderry · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This was a short book reliving the experience of the author who was a survivor of the May 7, 1915 sinking of the Lusitania. No only did he survive the sinking but he was then caught in the London bombing. Interesting tale.