Lusitania lifebuoy takes pride of place — in Liverpool

A RARE souvenir from the Lusitania which was retrieved by a Kinsale fisherman in 1915 has gone on display in a museum in England.

As wreaths were laid at the Lusitania memorial on the Old Head of Kinsale in Cork yesterday to mark the 93rd anniversary of the disaster, the Merseyside Maritime Museum confirmed that it will give pride of place to a cork and canvas life buoy from the doomed vessel.

More than 1,200 people died when the liner was struck on May 7, 1915 by a torpedo fired by a German U-boat.