Museum tells ship’s tale in numbers

An exhibition which opened a month ago at Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool reveals that there were more passengers on board the Lusitania when it was sunk than official figures show.

In the days following the sinking, newspapers reported numerous lists of survivors and victims, obtained from various sources.

Omitted from the previous official figures for Lusitania are fireman Gontes Cloules, waiter F Hill and passenger Robert Anderson, taking the figures for people on board from 1,959 to 1,962.