4 Now came a fourth message: Telegram, Naval Center Queenstown to Admiralty, May 5, 1915 (9:51 P.M.), “Home Waters: General Operations Telegrams,” May 1–5, 1915, Admiralty Papers, ADM 137/112, National Archives UK.
5 A detailed record: Ledger, Ministry of Defence Papers, DEFE/69/270, National Archives UK.
6 They accompanied the dreadnought: Telegram, Orion (via Pembroke) to Admiralty, May 5, 1915, “Home Waters: General Operation Telegrams,” May 1–5, 1915, Admiralty Papers, ADM 137/112, National Archives UK.
7 The Orion continued: Ibid.
8 “most important to attract neutral shipping”: Beesly, Room 40, 90; Ramsay, Lusitania, 202.
LUSITANIA: HELPFUL YOUNG LADIES
1 “wakened by shouts”: Letter, Pope to Ada Brooks Pope, June 28, 1915, Riddle Papers.
2 “we mustered the cooks”: Testimony, John I. Lewis, Petition of the Cunard Steamship Company, April 15, 1918, U.S. National Archives–New York, 587.
3 “The men were not efficient”: Myers account, quoted in Kalafus et al., Lest We Forget.
4 “On Thursday morning”: “Narrative of Mrs. J. MacFarquhar,” Lusitania Papers, Microcopy 580, Roll 197, U.S. National Archives–College Park.
5 “We were not issued with paint brushes”: Morton, Long Wake, 101. Mike Poirier contends Morton may in fact have encountered two Crompton girls.
6 A boy named Robert Kay: Robert Kay Account, courtesy of Mike Poirier. Special thanks also to Robert Kay.
7 “It’s alright drilling”: New York Times, May 10, 1915.
U-20: SPECTACLE
1 Thursday morning, May 6: Schwieger, War Log.
2 St. George’s Channel: Anyone interested in getting a better sense of where all these places and bodies of water are in relation to one another need only type the names into a Google search box.
LUSITANIA: LIFE AFTER DEATH
1 Theodate too was a member: For more on the Society for Psychical Research and on spiritualism at the end of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth, please see my own Thunderstruck, 386–87.
2 “If you wish to upset the law”: Ibid., 11, 13, 401.
3 Theodate claimed her own turban levitated: S. Smith, Theodate Pope Riddle, Notes, 8.
4 In 1907, the year Theodate turned forty: Katz, Dearest, 69.
5 Though only in his twenties: Ibid., 103; S. Smith, Theodate Pope Riddle, ch. 8, p. 1.
6 “There were passages that illustrated”: Letter, Pope to Ada Brooks Pope, June 28, 1915, Riddle Papers.
7 “All around us”: Quoted in “The Story of the Sinking of the Lusitania,” by Deborah Nicholson Lines Davison. Courtesy of Ms. Davison.
8 As of noon Thursday: Memorandum, “ ‘Lusitania’—American Proceedings,” Admiralty Papers, ADM 1/8451/56, National Archives UK.
U-20: CHANGE OF PLAN
1 On Thursday afternoon: Schwieger, War Log.