Lusitania victim gets a headstone after 101 years

As part of the annual sinking of the Lusitania commemoration a headstone to Margaret MacKenzie Shineman was unveiled at St. Multose Church in Kinsale. 

Rev. Peter Rutherford gives the Irish Examiner a brief history on this grave which remained unmarked for 101 years at St.Multose Church in Kinsale, Co Cork. The Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7 1915.

The Lusitania was the world's largest passenger ship when it was launched in 1906.