19 a systematic slaughter: Gilbert, First World War, 142–43.
20 “It is difficult, if not impossible”: Lansing, Private Memoranda, April 15, 1915, Lansing Papers.
21 “A neutral in time of international war”: Ibid., April 29, 1915.
22 “German naval policy”: Link, Wilson: Struggle, 366.
23 “It was not thought in official quarters”: New York Times, May 2, 1915.
24 The ship remained afloat: Ledger, Messages Received, Admiralty Papers, ADM 137/4101, National Archives UK.
25 “lids”: Washington Herald, May 1 and 2, 1915.
26 “cool and clean”: New York Times, May 7, 1915.
LUSITANIA: UNDER WAY
1 “Dark brown hair”: Poster, “Lusitania Disaster. Information Wanted,” Prichard Papers.
2 “a most interesting face”: Letter, Theodate Pope to Mrs. Prichard, Feb. 4, 1916, Prichard Papers.
3 “rather dull”: Letter, Thomas Sumner to Mrs. Prichard, Oct. 28, 1915, Prichard Papers.
4 “He was a great favorite”: Letter, Henry Needham to Mrs. Prichard, May 20, 1915, Prichard Papers.
5 “counting the time”: Letter, Arthur Gadsden to Mrs. Prichard, July 4, 1915, Prichard Papers.
6 “Do you think all these people”: Hoehling and Hoehling, Last Voyage, 21; see also New York Times, May 6, 1915.
7 “Captain Turner … neglected his duty”: Letter, Oliver Bernard to Mrs. Prichard, Aug. 15, 1915, Prichard Papers.
8 While moving downriver: I culled these details of New York Harbor from a variety of sources, held at the New York Public Library main branch. These include Map of New York and Harbor, A. R. Ohman Map Co., 1910; Sea Chart, New York Bay and Harbor, 1910; Map of Depths, New York Bay and Harbor, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, May 1914; Map, Manhattan, G. W. Bromley & Co., 1916, Plate 38; Map, New York City, 1910, Section 2, Plate 10, 1911. Interestingly, the last map makes a reference to “Sir Peter Warren Farm,” just above Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, once a vast tract of open land acquired in the eighteenth century by Warren, a British sea captain. May I offer a pointless observation: there is no farm in that location today.
9 Governors Island: In the interests of filling the reader’s mind with yet more useless knowledge, I’d like to note, here, that the 1960s comedy duo the Smothers Brothers—Tom and Dick—were born on Governors Island.
10 This being wartime: Preston, Lusitania, 136. There is scant information about these mysterious gentlemen. I was unable to find any source that identified them by name. It is also unclear exactly where they were held aboard ship, as the Lusitania had no formal “brig,” but all reports agree they were confined behind locked doors.
11 Alta Piper: See “Not on Board,” under “People,” at Lusitania Resource, www.?rmslusitania.?info/?people/?not-on-?board/.
U-20: TOWARD FAIR ISLE
1 The boat’s ventilators: Spiegel, Adventures, 3.
2 “here and there rain and fog”: Schwieger, War Log. All references in this chapter to course, weather, wave heights, and so forth come from this log.
3 Men served as ballast: Neureuther and Bergen, U-Boat Stories, 126, 186, 195.
4 One boat, U-3: R?ssler, U-Boat, 25.
5 “The scratches on the steel walls”: Neureuther and Bergen, U-Boat Stories, 145.