Deckchair and baptismal cup among Lusitania artefacts to be put on public display in Cork 

Exhibition in Kinsale museum on Friday night as part of Culture Night

Plates, cutlery and a baptismal cup from the Lusitania which will be on display on Culture Night. Pictures: Eddie O'Hare

Several priceless artefacts recovered from the liner Lusitania, which have never before been put on public display before, are to be showcased at a museum in Co Cork dedicated to the memory of the sinking of the ship and the loss of 1,198 lives.

Exquisite Wedgewood dinner plates, many of which are in perfect condition, knives, forks, spoons, a deckchair and a baptismal cup that belonged to a two-year-old passenger whose body was never found, will be put on display for the first time at the Lusitania Museum and Old Head Signal Tower in Kinsale as part of national ‘Culture Night’ events on Friday from 7pm.