Lusitania victim to finally get name on gravestone

Exactly 101 years after the sinking of the Lusitania, the grave-marker of “an unknown victim” is to be replaced with her real name — that of a young bride who was on the ship due to a cruel twist of fate.

The culmination of research undertaken by relatives of the survivors of the May 7, 1915, sinking will ensure that, 101 years later, the name Margaret MacKenzie Shineman goes on a headstone at St Multose Church cemetery in Kinsale, Co Cork.