William Turner
Books
- Eighteen Minutes The Sinking of the Lusitania and the Eighteen Minutes That Changed the World · Liszt Think
On May 7, 1915, a single torpedo from U-20 struck the Lusitania off the Old Head of Kinsale.
- The Submarine’s Patrol…d learned to live with warnings of this kind. The RMS Lusitania, then three days out of New York, received the warning by wireless. Captain William Turner acknowledged the message. His course remained unchanged. His speed remained steady. The extraordinary precautions that might have been warr…
- The Crossing…, its war diary open for its next entry, the RMS Lusitania encountered a wall of fog on the afternoon of 2 May 1915. On the bridge, Captain William Turner ordered the speed reduced from twenty-one to fifteen knots. The deck log recorded the change. It was a weather call, the kind of decision a…
- The Roar from Within…inundated, her steam pressure gone, her power failing, her deck tilted at an angle that made the lifeboats useless. On the bridge, Captain William Turner was about to give the only orders left to give.