Lusitania Centenary: Emotional ceremony at offshore wreck site

The most unique connection between the modern ships of the Cunard line’s history and the ill-fated Lusitania is Queen Victoria’s second engineer, George Harrison.

His great-grandfather, George Little, was the Lusitania’s senior third engineer and survived the torpedo attack.

The younger George was present for the commemorations which he described “as very emotional,” especially the wreath-laying which took place over the wreck site just after 3am as Queen Victoria was on her way into harbour.