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Established in 2015, 'Preserving the RMS Lusitania' is a heritage initiative dedicated to safeguarding her legacy by raising awareness for the importance of research, wreck exploration, artifact recovery, and artifact preservation. Founded on April 19, 2015, this blog/page, , is dedicated to promoting awareness and garnering support for the preservation of the wreck of the Lusitania, located off the Old Head of Kinsale on Ireland’s southern coast.

10/20/2026

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10/15/2026

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📢 We’re delighted to introduce one of our fascinating presentations which will take place at Lusitania: The Next Chapter:

🎨 A Portrait of Hugh Lane: A Life Cut Short | Áine Andrews

The portrait of Hugh Lane by John Singer Sargent shows an elegant, somewhat languid figure in a striped waistcoat, clutching gloves to his chest, with a romantic, far-away, even melancholic expression. The sitter is perhaps best known as Lady Gregory’s nephew, but Sir Hugh Lane was a very successful art dealer in London and occupied a unique place in the Edwardian art world. He was a philanthropist, as well as a patron of modern art who, bought important of Old Master paintings and sold them to collectors in London, South Africa and New York. By 1914, Hugh Lane was director of the National Gallery of Ireland and had amassed a wonderful collection of Impressionist paintings. His aim was to donate it to the city of Dublin by creating a purpose-built gallery of modern art but unfortunately, an unsigned codicil to his will, led to an ongoing legal dispute between London and Dublin. Hugh Lane was born in Cork in 1875, but never returned, until with tragic irony, he died on the ill-fated Lusitania in 1915 within sight of the Cork coastline.

Áine Andrews presents the very popular art appreciation series Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories at the Triskel Arts Centre Cork. Each lecture examines one painting in detail while exploring its meaning, historical context, the artist and links to society of the time, as well as the often fascinating journey of the painting to its present location. Now a practising artist, Áine studied at Crawford College of Art and Design and worked for many years as an art teacher at Coláiste/Gaelcholáiste Choilm Ballincollig Cork during which time she regularly organised art history study trips for students at home and abroad. She is the author of several school text-books. The most recent, New Appreciating Art -Visual Studies for Leaving Certificate (2022), was co-authored with Aidan O Sullivan, and published by Gill Education to cover the new art history syllabus introduced in 2021 for Senior Cycle art.

Event: 7.30pm
Tickets: €20 link in bio

LUSITANIA during her sea trials
10/14/2026

LUSITANIA during her sea trials

10/13/2026

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10/12/2026

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LUSITANIA The Sea War Museum Jutland in Thyborøn, Denmark, exhibits several surviving parts of the Imperial German subma...
10/02/2026

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The Sea War Museum Jutland in Thyborøn, Denmark, exhibits several surviving parts of the Imperial German submarine U-20, including her conning tower, deck gun, periscope, and one of her propellers.

On November 4, 1916, U-20 ran aground near Vrist on the west coast of Jutland, Denmark. Attempts by German torpedo boats to pull the submarine free were unsuccessful.

With no possibility of refloating U-20, her crew abandoned the submarine and, around noon on November 5, 1916, scuttled her with explosive charges to prevent her from falling into enemy hands.

Substantial portions of U-20 still remain on the seabed off Vrist today. The lower section of the submarine, including remains of her two diesel engines, survives at the wreck site, while her conning tower and other recovered components are preserved and displayed at the Sea War Museum Jutland.

⚓ I en morders fodspor ⚓

D. 17. august besøgte Sally Burnes Sea War Museum, og med sig havde hun en helt særlig fortælling og formål med sit besøg. 📜👇

John James Burnes blev født i 1867 til John og Margaret Burns og var en af ni børn i familien. Han uddannede sig senere hen som professionel sømand og tjente i maskinrummene på dampskibe. I 1894 giftede han sig med Janet Dickson, og sammen fik de fem børn, herunder Sallys bedstefar.

I 1915 arbejdede han som ledende fyrbøder ombord på den transatlantiske luksusliner Lusitania, som den maj havde kurs mod Liverpool. Det var hårdt arbejde i fyrrummet, hvor fyrbøderne skovlede kul i tonsvis – temperaturerne var høje og luften præget af kulstøv og røg. 🛠️🔥

D. 7. maj havde skibet tilbagelagt 2.770 mil, da det ud for Irlands sydlige kyst, blot 270 mil fra sin slutdestination i Liverpool, blev torpederet af en tysk ubåd 🚢💥. Skibets kaptajn var forinden blev adviseret at zigzagge i det britiske farvand for at fjendtlige ubåde ikke skulle beregne dets kurs – det råd ignorerede kaptajn William Thomas Turner. Torpedoen ramte midt i Lusitanias styrbordsside og eksploderede, hvorefter en endnu større eksplosion fulgte, som rev skibet i to. Den mægtige Atlanterhavsliner gik ned på mindre end 20 min 🌊. Ud af 1.959 passagerer døde 1.198, heraf 128 amerikanere – tabet af de mange amerikanske liv vakte stor harme i USA, og det var en afgørende faktor for den offentlige mening om landets indtræden i Første Verdenskrig.

Det var den tyske ubåd U 20 under kaptajn Walter Schwieger, der sænkede Lusitania og dræbte Sallys oldefar denne skæbnesvangre forårsdag. Lusitania havde udover sine knap 2.000 passagerer også 173 tons am******on ombord, hvis ankomst til Liverpool kaptajn Schwieger agtede at forpurre.

Halvandet år senere stødte U 20 på grund nær Vrist ved Vestkysten 🌊📍. Tyskerne kunne ikke få ubåden fri, og d. 5. november 1916, dagen efter strandingen, sprængte de den selv med U 20s egen torpedo. Under kaptajn Schwieger havde den tyske ubåd sænket 37 skibe.

Sea War Museum huser i dag resterne U 20, og netop disse levn rejste Sally fra Storbritannien for at se på museet – ubådstårnet, maskinkanonen og periskopet ✈️🏛️. Særligt sidstnævnte gjorde indtryk på Sally, som sagde således: ”… to fold up the handles and to be able to actually see the beach through the periscope now… imagine seeing that boat (Lusitania) and just thinking… I guess it’s very clinical – just fire your weapon, and the aftermath, you know, that’s just a consequence of war.”

Tak for besøget, Sally!

💡 Praktisk information:
🎟️ Ved besøg på Sea War Museum Jutland og Havets Hemmeligheder på samme dag får du rabat på billetten.
🪦 Besøg også Mindepark for Jyllandsslaget i klitten udenfor museerne.

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