Sorry to be missing this upcoming meeting and guessing that there will be good discussion surrounding newly illuminated knowledge of submarines and World War I found in Erik Larson's "Dead Wake".
Forever obsessed with oceanic disasters since I was a young girl, thanks to the camp song, "Oh they built the ship Titanic to sail the ocean blue....." (aside, what a strange song to be singing in Girl Scout Camp and that made me wonder, did that really happen and yes(!) it did... as a matter of fact it is still sung by Girl Scouts today as you can witness in the following YouTube video I tirelessly found within two seconds of research:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rP1gD9xXkU
....did you sing this too?) , I was intensely interested in the details surrounding the last crossing of the Lusitania. Larson did not disappoint.
Back to looming disasters.... Big picture:
Little picture: The individuals. From a Lusitania information website, http://www.rmslusitania.info/people/statistics/ :
How many people died in the Lusitania sinking? How many survived?
| Total | Survived | Died | Survival rate | |
| Saloon (First Class) | 290 | 113 | 177 | 39.0% |
| Second Cabin (Second Class) | 601 | 229 | 372 | 38.1% |
| Third Class | 370 | 134 | 236 | 36.2% |
| Deported Seamen (Third Class) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.0% |
| Total Passengers | 1,264 | 476 | 788 | 37.7% |
| Stowaways | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.0% |
| Band | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60.0% |
| Deck Crew | 69 | 37 | 32 | 53.6% |
| Engineering Crew | 313 | 112 | 201 | 35.8% |
| Victualling Crew | 306 | 139 | 167 | 45.4% |
| Total Crew (including Band) | 693 | 291 | 402 | 42.0% |
| Total Complement (with stowaways) | 1,960 | 767 | 1,193 | 39.1% |
| Total | Survived | Died | Survival rate | ||||||||||
| Total Complement (with stowaways) | 1,960 | 763 | 1,197 | 38.9% |
(Conclusion: be in the band)
Great videos from the Smithsonian channel:
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/sinking-the-lusitania-an-american-tragedy/0/3420538
Please look over the following books, suggested by Kim, for an upcoming selection to be chosen at the meeting:
"Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens
"Manhattan Beach" Jennifer Egan
"What We Lose" Zinzi Clemmons
Happy Reading,
LK
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