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At the 2015 Gorham Lions Club Car Show in Gorham, Maine.
Owned by Garfield Toothaker of Gorham, Maine.
This was one of my favorites from this entire show as these never seem to appear at shows back in Connecticut. I wound up hitting four car shows during vacation this year: Blast From the Past Diner Cruise Night in East Waterboro, Saco Spirit Car Show in Saco, Lambo Giro 2015 in Cape Elizabeth, and the Gorham Lions Club Car Show in Gorham, Maine. Hopefully I'll be able to post some more pictures from these shows.
The last light of day paints rich colors on clouds above Mooselookmeguntic Lake.
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Mooselookmeguntic Lake at sunset.
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While traveling north on Rt. 17 towards Rangeley, Maine I stopped at the scenic overlook with a view of Mooselookmeguntic Lake and Toothaker Island. The overlook is called "The Height of the Land". Clouds were floating lazily through the sky as I shot this photo on a beautiful summer's day.
Mooselookmeguntic Lake captured from
the Shore Road¹ overlook, Roxbury, Maine
Mooselookmeguntic Lake with Toothaker Island center stage.
I'm guessin', back in the day, some guy with a toothache musta been stranded there. Which kinda reminds me of "Lord of the Flies Island" (a.k.a. Pillsbury Island) on Eagle Lake, where Dah Wife and I got stranded during a summer nor-easter. We set up camp and hunkered down on the island for a couple days waiting out the storm with a dozen or so other Allagash trippers that got blown off the lake by the 40 knot winds. Some of canoists were Chase Rapids day trippers waiting for a pontoon plane to take them back to the Hilton, but needless to say the plane was delayed, and they got a little crazed while stranded there w/o adequate provisions. That was OK, as most of us can go a day or so without a proper meal, but when the cigarettes ran out, things got a bit crazy.
¹ a.k.a. Maine State Road 17
Caption: University of Illinois College of Medicine, Class 1916, Consilio Et Animis
Photographer: Root Studio, Kimball Hall, Chicago
Description: As pictured, left to right, top to bottom
* indicates photographed graduate not listed in Class of 1916 in 1921 alumni record
† indicates faculty/staff
Robert Irving Barickman
Ward Cooper
Manley Joseph Capron
Ian Davis Tiedemann
Victor Finsand
Schuyler Opp Cotton
Lewis Edwin Joel Browne
James Swaney Cooper BS
Lloyd Emerson Smith
Samuel Joy Rowland
Marcus Bryed Wilson
John Lestrange Rock BS AB
John Francis Bennett
Leo Vincent Gates
Arthur Kern Spiering
John Gervase Goggin
William James Mulholland
James Melvin Severson
Blaine Wilson Claypool
Harold Mortimer Glover BA
Clarence August Jacobson
Hervey Fulton Masson PhC
Pliny Russell Blodgett BS
Edwin Judge Barnett
Juan Sixton Marchan
Ladislav Stolfa
Reuben Alvord Moffett
Edward Arthur Brucker
Russel Tomlin
William Holmes Dyer
Fusa Taro Nakaya
Franklin Carlisle Bivings
Gerald Charles Hunt
Herman Carl Koch
Arshavir Ignatius
Warren Coleman Hawthorne MD †
Bernard John Cigrand MS DDS †
Charles Herbert Phifer MD †
Joseph C. Beck MD †
Casey Albert Wood AM MD †
Albert John Ochsner BS MD †
Nelson Mortimer Percy MD †
Elmer DeWitt Brothers MD LLB †
Adolph Gehrmann MD †
Joseph McIntyre Patton MD †
Frank Donald Moore MD †
William Henry Welker AC PhD †
Leonard Clifford Borland MD †
Arthur Morgan Evans
Fred Elwell Earel
Rollo Preston Bourbon
Henry Robert Leibinger
George Peter Dreyer AB PhD †
William Fuller MD †
Frederick Gillette Harris MD †
Daniel Nathan Eisendrath AB MD †
Charles Davison MD †
Charles Sumner Bacon PhB MD †
Edmund Janes James PhD LLD, Pres. †
Charles Spencer Williamson BS MD †
William McIntyre Harsha AB MD †
William Allen Pusey AM MD †
Charles Edward Humiston MD †
Edward Louis Heintz PhG MD†
John Ross Harger BS MD †
Nathan Samuel Schiff
Roy M. Bowell
Boyd Franklin Eye
Alick Bernstein
Bernard Fantus MD †
Haim Iddell Davis MD †
William Henry Burmeister AB MD †
David John Davis PhD MD †
Channing Whitney Barrett MD †
Daniel Atkinson King Steele MD LLD, Dean†
Albert Chauncey Eycleshymer BS PhD MD †
John Lincoln Porter MD †
Lee Harrison Mettler AM MD †
Frederick Tice MD †
Maurice Lewison MD †
Frank Eldridge Wynekoop MD †
William Bowker Preston
Placido Ramos Vasquez Hommel
Mardiros Bedros Vartanian
Aniceto Ylagan Mandanas
Richard Root Rupert MD †
Stella May Gardner MD †
Clara Pauline Seippel MD †
Rachelle S. Yarros MD †
Albert Edward Halstead MD †
William Edward Quine MD LLD †
Thomas Archibald Davis MD †
Mary Gilruth McEwen MS MD †
Julius Hayes Hess MD †
Lois Lindsey Wynekoop MD †
Frederick George Dyas MD †
Bruno A. Lungmus
Rocco A. Nigro
Louis Henry Stern
William Franklin Carroll
Samuel Jack Taub
Norval Harvey Pierce MD †
Mabel Louise Arneson, Asst. to Secy. †
William Henry Browne, Secy. †
E. E. Watson, Clerk † *
Charles Mayer Jacobs MD †
William Israelson
Abraham Seletz
Jacob D. Lifschutz
William Raim
Max Lampert
Harry Katz
Maurice Dorne (formerly Maurice Doktorsky)
Willis Irving Silverstein
Mary Ruth McGuire
Grace Maude Hawthorne
Hannah Jane Beatty
Michael Milton Cody
Paul Jacob Wolf
Leo Jacob Jacobson
Horace R. Cobb
Jacob Paskind
Walter John Jaracz, Asst. Sergt. at Arms
Russell Adams Gilmore, Artist
Bernard Joseph Bolka, Editor
Jacob Stern, Prophet
Lynn Wickwire Elston BS, Sal.
Agnes Beulah Cushman, Treas.
Roy Davis Short, 3rd Vice Pres.
Daniel William Jeffries, 1st Vice Pres.
Charles Patt Eck PhG PhC, Pres.
Wesley Morgan Burling, 2nd Vice Pres.
Victor Piro, Secy.
Ralph Harrison Pino, Hist.
Conrad George Appelle, Val.
Emmet Francis Casey, Sergt. at Arms
Alexander William Fordyce, Poet
Harry Hults Wilson, Chaplain
Ralph Waldo Petersen
Cora Arminta Matthews
Bernard John Kuly (formerly Bernard John Kulasavicz)
Aubrey James Cross
Lloyd David Cutting
Benjamin Goldberg, Ex. Comm.
Charley Lewis Tomsu, Ex. Comm.
Ralph King, Ex. Comm.
Alger Arthur Clark, Ex. Comm.
Dave Elias Ellison (formerly D. E. Eisenberg), Ex. Comm.
Sophia Henrietta Frederickson, Ex. Comm.
Clifford Edwin Bergin, Ex. Comm.
George Robert Lipp, Ch. Ex. Comm.
Harry Michael Peterson, Ex. Comm.
Helen Pearl Kutzenberger, Ex. Comm.
Marion Shelley Fink, Ex. Comm.
Victor Hugo Hasek, Ex. Comm.
Harry Sims Norton, Ex. Comm.
Warren Caldwell Blim, Ex. Comm.
Joel Edwin Toothaker, Ex. Comm.
Henry Benjamin Raman, Ex. Comm.
Athol Horatio Wedge
Albert Brockway Carstensen
Not pictured:
Ralph Glenn Kline
Maury Holcombe McRae
Hubert Franklin Meacham
Source: University of Illinois College of Medicine Graduating Class Composite Photos. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago Library
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Mooselookmeguntic Lake laid out before an early evening sky.
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Art is a vehicle to educate, inform, inspire and attract. Art draws people in and makes them think and slow down. ROAR artists understand the value of art as an expression of self and soul and as a healing tool.
ROAR artists understand strength, human frailty, overcoming universal obstacles and finding opportunities even during the darkest times. ROAR collaborates with a rich pool of locally based working artists and provides them with an opportunity to work. ROAR combines personal expression and vocational development.
What is ROAR?
ROAR (Real Outsider Art Rentals) is a new vocational art program designed by NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Maine to help artists from the community mental health system market and showcase their talent. ROAR art will be available to rent or purchase at events, in local businesses, schools and other public locations. All proceeds will be shared to support the artists and the programs of NAMI Maine.
ROAR Artists:
The LINC and Waterville Social Clubs
The LINC and Waterville Social Clubs are supported by Motivational Services, Inc., a non-profit mental health organization offering programs to meet the needs of people with severe and prolonged mental illness in Kennebec County, and funded by DHHS (Adult Mental Health Services-Peer Support Office) and United Way. Club activities include the art and writing classes, recreational and educational activities, cultural events, workshops on daily living skills, crafts projects, opportunities for volunteerism, and participation in the club's advisory board.
Natasha Mayers has been conducting art workshops at the LINC Club in Augusta and the Waterville Social Club since 1981. In 1987, Lee Sharkey began a parallel writing workshop at the LINC Club. The candid and original drawings, paintings, and poetry reflect joy, pain, bemusement, despair, hope, passion, curiosity—the full range of human vision and responses. The work speaks from the heart, with graphic eloquence, intensity, and immediacy; it moves us to a deeper appreciation of both the uniqueness and the commonality of human experience.
Artwork from the LINC and Waterville Social Clubs
"The paintings and drawings assembled here* were created by artists who work outside the commercial and academic mainstreams. The complex world with which most artists contend entails finding a dealer, attracting the attention of the media, promoting themselves with collectors, curators and critics, while finding the time and space for making art. They must also be aware of myriad stylistic and intellectual trends, many of which are derived from art historical sources.
In contrast to their mainstream peers, these artists function without concern for the art market or art history. Instead, they deal with arduous mental and emotional disabilities that exempt them from professional pressures. They are untouched by what has been called “cultural contamination”. The result is that their art often reveals an unusual sincerity and an admirable ability to cope with serious limitations.
Art classes are provided by Motivational Services, Inc. at the Waterville and Linc Social Clubs. All the artists have discovered or revived remarkable artistic talent. The exceptional art teacher, Natasha Mayers, nurtures their innate abilities while providing just enough direction to encourage their individuality.
This exhibit is a testimony to the artists’ achievements, both artistically and personally. The subject matter ranges from humorous to insightful to profound, revealing the artists’ fantasies, fears and observations with an unmediated directness. Their disarming methods can be spontaneous, obsessive, meditative or inspirational. We respond to the work immediately because the artists have accomplished something we all seek – the revelation of the self. " ~ Daphne Anderson Deeds
*exhibited at the Great Outside, Camden, 2009
Wed. the 2nd and starting the Holiday season out right.
10am today going to dentist to have all my teeth on left side ripped out. 2 weeks later back in have all my teeth on right side ripped out.
Happy Holidays from my Dentist Dr. Toothaker Yep that's his name! I say Bah! Humbug!
monster high dolls create-a-monster witch ~
outfit from MeLoveGangrels ~
Agoraia Designs by moonsight68 on etsy :)
U.S. Army Spc. Zakary Toothaker, a military policeman from the Maine Army National Guard, representing Region I, prepares for the three-meter-drop during the Army National Guard Best Warrior Competition's Army Combat Water Survival Test July 7, 2023, at the Buckner Fitness Center on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. The Army National Guard Best Warrior Competition is a testament to the organization’s pursuit of excellence. It challenges participants through a diverse range of 26 activities that test their skills, resilience, and dedication to their craft. This competition sets the stage for showcasing the highest levels of proficiency among NCOs and Soldiers in the Army National Guard. (Alaska National Guard photo by Robert DeBerry)
The Postcard
A postally unused Litho-Chrome Series postcard that was published by A.N.C. of New York, Leipzig, Berlin and Dresden. The card has an undivided back, and in the space for the stamp it states:
'Place Stamp Here.
One Cent for United States
and Island Possessions,
Cuba, Canada and Mexico.
Two Cents for Foreign.'
Roycroft
Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States.
Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895, in the village of East Aurora, New York, near Buffalo. Participants were known as Roycrofters.
The work and philosophy of the group, often referred to as the Roycroft movement, had a strong influence on the development of American architecture and design in the early 20th. century.
History
The name "Roycroft" was chosen after the printers, Samuel and Thomas Roycroft, who made books in London from about 1650–1690.
The word "Roycroft" had a special significance to Elbert Hubbard, who believed that it meant "King's Craft" in French. In the guilds of early modern Europe, king's craftsmen were guild members who had achieved a high degree of skill and therefore made items for the King.
The Roycroft insignia was borrowed from the monk Cassiodorus, a 13th.-century bookbinder and illuminator.
Elbert Hubbard had been influenced by the ideas of William Morris on a visit to England. He was unable to find a publisher for his book 'Little Journeys', and so inspired by Morris's Kelmscott Press, decided to set up his own private press to print the book himself, thereby founding Roycroft Press.
His championing of the Arts and Crafts approach attracted a number of visiting craftspeople to East Aurora, and they formed a community of printers, furniture makers, metalsmiths, leather-smiths, and bookbinders. A quotation from John Ruskin formed the Roycroft "creed":
"A belief in working with the head, hand and
heart and mixing enough play with the work
so that every task is pleasurable and makes
for health and happiness."
The inspirational leadership of Hubbard attracted a group of almost 500 people by 1910, and millions more knew of him through his essay 'A Message to Garcia'.
The Roycroft Press is also credited for publishing partner publications, such as Carl Lothar Bredemeier's 'The Buffalo Magazine for Arts' in 1920.
The Drowning of Elbert Hubbard
In 1915 Hubbard and his wife, noted suffragist Alice Moore Hubbard, died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, and the Roycroft community went into a gradual decline. Following Elbert's death, his son Bert took over the business.
In attempts to keep his father's business afloat, Bert proposed selling Roycroft's furniture through major retailers. Sears & Roebuck eventually agreed to carry the furniture, but this was only a short-lived success.
The Roycroft Campus
Fourteen original Roycroft buildings are located in the area of South Grove and Main Street in East Aurora. Known as the "Roycroft Campus", this rare survival of an art colony was awarded National Historic Landmark status in 1986.
The Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum, housed in the George and Gladys Scheidemantel House in East Aurora is the main collection and research centre for the work of the Roycrofters.
On display is the Golding Pearl letterpress used by the Roycrofters. Golding & Company is a defunct American manufacturer of platen printing presses and printers' tools, established in 1869 by William Hughson Golding (1845–1916) in the Fort Hill area of Boston, Massachusetts.
The Roycroft Inn
Part of the Roycroft Campus, the Inn is a hotel with a restaurant and lobby bar across the street from the primary buildings. It first opened for visitors in 1905 and in 1986, as part of the Roycroft Campus, became a National Historic Landmark.
The photograph shows the Salon at the Inn; the murals were painted by Roycroft artist Alexis Jean Fournier.
Restoration
A nine year restoration was completed in 1995, with funding from the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation; the total cost was $8 million. The Copper Shop was first building on the Roycroft Campus to be restored. The campus was re-opened in 1995.
Famous Roycrofters
Famous Roycrofters include:
-- Arthur H. Cole (b. 1899), coppersmith.
-- Jerome Connor (1874–1943), sculptor of the Elbert Hubbard statue, North Wind on the Roycroft Chapel, and others.
-- William Wallace Denslow (1856–1915), illustrator of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
-- Alexis Jean Fournier (1865–1948), American painter, including 20 murals at the Roycroft Inn.
-- William Joseph "Dard" Hunter (1883–1966), American authority on making paper by hand, as well as printing using handmade type. He published a number of books on traditional, pre-industrial, techniques for making paper.
-- Walter Jennings, coppersmith and jeweler.
-- Karl Kipp (1882-1954), worked in the bindery in 1908 and later established the Roycroft Copper Shop.
-- Fredrick Kranz, created fine leather goods.
-- Victor Toothaker (1882-1932), coppersmith.
-- Samuel Warner (1871-1947), book designer, artist and illustrator for many Roycroft books.
The Sinking of the Lusitania
By 05:00 on 7 May 1915, Lusitania had reached a point 120 nautical miles (220 km) from the southern tip of Ireland, where she met the patrolling boarding vessel Partridge.
By 06:00, heavy fog had arrived, and extra lookouts were posted. Captain Turner had 22 lifeboats swung out as a precaution so that they could be launched more quickly if needed.
As the ship came closer to Ireland, Captain Turner ordered depth soundings to be made, and at 08:00 for speed to be reduced to eighteen knots, then to 15 knots, and for the foghorn to be sounded.
Some of the passengers were disturbed that the ship appeared to be advertising her presence. By 10:00, the fog began to lift, and by noon it had been replaced by bright sunshine over a clear smooth sea, and speed was increased to 18 knots.
U-20 surfaced at 12:45 as visibility was now excellent. At 13:20, something was sighted and Schwieger was summoned to the conning tower: at first it appeared to be several ships because of the number of funnels and masts, but this resolved into one large steamer appearing over the horizon.
At 13:25, the submarine submerged to periscope depth of 11 metres and set a course to intercept the liner at her maximum submerged speed of 9 knots. When the ships had closed to 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) Lusitania turned away,
Schwieger feared he had lost his target, but she turned again, this time onto a near ideal course to bring her into position for an attack.
At 14:10, with the target at 700m range he ordered one gyroscopic torpedo to be fired, set to run at a depth of three metres.
In Schwieger's own words, recorded in the log of U-20:
"Torpedo hits starboard side right behind the bridge.
An unusually heavy detonation takes place with a
very strong explosive cloud. The explosion of the
torpedo must have been followed by a second one
[boiler or coal or powder?]
The ship stops immediately and heels over to
starboard very quickly, immersing simultaneously
at the bow... the name Lusitania becomes visible
in golden letters."
U-20's torpedo officer, Raimund Weisbach, viewed the destruction through the vessel's periscope and felt the explosion was unusually severe. Within six minutes, Lusitania's forecastle began to submerge.
Though Schwieger states the torpedo hit beneath the bridge, survivor testimony, including that of Captain Turner, gave a number of different locations: some stated that it was between the first and second funnels, others between the third and fourth, and one claimed it struck below the capstan.
On board the Lusitania, Leslie Morton, an eighteen-year-old lookout at the bow, had spotted thin lines of foam racing toward the ship. He shouted through a megaphone:
"Torpedoes coming
on the starboard side!"
He believed that the bubbles came from two projectiles, not one. The torpedo struck Lusitania abaft the bridge, sending a plume of water upward which knocked Lifeboat No. 5 off its davits and a geyser of steel plating, coal smoke, cinders, and debris high above the deck.
One passenger recalled:
"It sounded like a million-ton hammer
hitting a steam boiler a hundred feet high."
A second, more powerful explosion followed, ringing throughout the ship, and thick grey smoke began to pour out of the funnels and ventilator cowls that led deep into the boiler rooms.
Schwieger's log entries attest that he launched only one torpedo. Some doubt the validity of this claim, contending that the German government subsequently altered the published fair copy of Schwieger's log, but accounts from other U-20 crew members corroborate it.
The entries were also consistent with intercepted radio reports sent to Germany by U-20 once she had returned to the North Sea, before any possibility of an official cover-up.
At 14:12, Captain Turner had Quartermaster Johnston stationed at the ship's wheel to steer 'hard-a-starboard' towards the Irish coast, but the ship could not be steadied, and rapidly ceased to respond to the wheel.
Turner signalled for the engines to be reversed to halt the ship, but although the signal was received in the engine room, nothing could be done.
Steam pressure had collapsed from 195 psi before the explosion, to 50 psi and falling afterwards, meaning Lusitania could not be steered or stopped to counteract the list or to beach herself.
Lusitania's wireless operator sent out an immediate SOS, which was acknowledged by a coastal wireless station. Shortly afterward he transmitted the ship's position, 10 nautical miles (19 km) south of the Old Head of Kinsale.
At 14:14, electrical power failed, plunging the cavernous interior of the ship into darkness. Radio signals continued on emergency batteries, but electric lifts failed, trapping crew members in the forward cargo hold who had been preparing luggage to go ashore at Liverpool later that evening.
Unfortunately it was these seamen precisely who were to report to muster stations to launch lifeboats in the event of a sinking.
Bulkhead doors that had been closed as a precaution before the attack could not be re-opened to release trapped men.
The rudder became inoperable with the loss of power as well, meaning that the ship could not be steered to counteract the list or to beach herself.
There were reports of passengers being trapped in the two central elevators, though one saloon passenger claimed to have seen the lifts stuck between the boat deck and the deck below while passing through the First Class entrance.
About one minute after the electrical power failed, Captain Turner gave the order to abandon ship. Water had flooded the ship's starboard longitudinal compartments, causing a 15-degree list to starboard.
Lusitania's severe starboard list complicated the launch of her lifeboats. Ten minutes after the torpedo struck, when she had slowed enough to start putting boats in the water, the lifeboats on the starboard side swung out too far to step aboard safely.
While it was still possible to board the lifeboats on the port side, lowering them presented a different problem. As was typical for the period, the hull plates of Lusitania were riveted, and as the lifeboats were lowered they dragged on the inch-high rivets, which threatened to seriously damage or capsize the boats before they landed in the water.
Many lifeboats overturned while loading or lowering, spilling passengers into the sea, and others were overturned by the ship's motion when they hit the water.
It has been claimed that some boats, because of the negligence of some officers, crashed down onto the deck, crushing other passengers, and sliding down towards the bridge. This has been disputed by passenger and crew testimony.
Some untrained crewmen lost their grip on handheld ropes used to lower the lifeboats while trying to lower the boats into the ocean, spilling their occupants into the sea.
Other lifeboats tipped on launch as panicking people jumped in.
Lusitania had 48 lifeboats, more than enough for all the crew and passengers, but only 6 were successfully lowered, all from the starboard side.
Lifeboat 1 overturned as it was being lowered, spilling its original occupants into the sea, but it managed to right itself shortly afterwards and was later filled with people from in the water.
Lifeboats 9 (5 people on board) and 11 (7 people on board) managed to reach the water safely, and both later picked up many swimmers.
Lifeboats 13 and 15 also safely reached the water, overloaded with around 150 people. Finally, Lifeboat 21 (52 people on board) reached the water safely and cleared the ship moments before her final plunge.
A few of Lusitania's collapsible lifeboats washed off her decks as she sank and provided flotation for some survivors.
Two lifeboats on the port side cleared the ship as well. Lifeboat 14 (11 people on board) was lowered and launched safely, but because the boat plug was not in place, it filled with seawater and sank almost immediately after reaching the water.
Later, Lifeboat 2 floated away from the ship with new occupants (its previous ones having been spilled into the sea when they upset the boat) after they removed a rope and one of the ship's "tentacle-like" funnel stays. They rowed away shortly before the ship sank.
There was panic and disorder on the starboard side of the deck. Schwieger had been observing this through U-20's periscope, and by 14:25, he dropped the periscope and headed out to sea.
Surviving passengers on the port side of the deck, however, paint a calmer picture. Many, including author Charles Lauriat, who published his account of the disaster, stated that a few passengers climbed into the early portside lifeboats before being ordered out by Staff Captain James Anderson, who proclaimed, "This ship will not sink" and reassured those nearby that the liner had "touched bottom" and would stay afloat.
In reality, he had ordered the crew to wait and fill Lusitania's portside ballast tanks with seawater to even the ship's trim so the lifeboats could be lowered safely. As a result, few boats on the port side were launched, none under Anderson's supervision.
Captain Turner was on the deck near the bridge clutching the ship's logbook and charts when a wave swept upward towards the bridge and the rest of the ship's forward superstructure, knocking him overboard into the sea.
He managed to swim and find a chair floating in the water which he clung to. He survived, having been pulled unconscious from the water after spending three hours there.
Lusitania's bow slammed into the bottom about 100 metres (330 ft) below at a shallow angle because of her forward momentum as she sank. Along the way, some boilers exploded and the ship returned briefly to an even keel.
Turner's last navigational fix had been only two minutes before the torpedoing, and he was able to remember the ship's speed and bearing at the moment of the sinking. This was accurate enough to locate the wreck after the war.
The ship travelled about two nautical miles (4 km) from the time of the torpedoing to her final resting place, leaving a trail of debris and people behind.
After her bow sank completely, Lusitania's stern rose out of the water, enough for her propellers to be seen, and went under.
As the tips of Lusitania's four, 70-foot-tall funnels dipped beneath the surface, they formed whirlpools which dragged nearby swimmers down with the ship. Her masts and rigging were the last to disappear.
Lusitania sank in only 18 minutes, at a distance of 11.5 nautical miles (21 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale. Despite being relatively close to shore, it took several hours for help to arrive from the Irish coast.
By the time help arrived, however, many in the 52 °F (11 °C) water had succumbed to the cold. By the days' end, 764 passengers and crew from Lusitania had been rescued and landed at Queenstown.
The final death toll for the disaster came to a catastrophic number. Of the 1,959 passengers and crew aboard Lusitania at the time of her sinking, 1,199 had been lost.
In the days following the disaster, the Cunard line offered local fishermen and sea merchants a cash reward for the bodies floating all throughout the Irish Sea, some floating as far away as the Welsh coast. Only 289 bodies were recovered, 65 of which were never identified.
The bodies of many of the victims were buried at either Queenstown, where 148 bodies were interred in the Old Church Cemetery, or the Church of St Multose in Kinsale, but the bodies of the remaining 885 victims were never recovered.
Two days before, U-20 had sunk Earl of Lathom, but had first allowed the crew to escape in boats. According to international maritime law, any military vessel stopping an unarmed civilian ship was required to allow those on board time to escape before sinking it.
The conventions had been drawn up before the invention of the submarine, and took no account of the severe risk a small vessel, such as a submarine, faced if it gave up the advantage of a surprise attack.
Schwieger could have allowed the crew and passengers of Lusitania to take to the boats, but he considered the danger of being rammed or fired upon by deck guns to be too great.
Merchant ships had, in fact, been advised to steer directly at any U-boat that surfaced. A cash bonus had been offered for any that were sunk, though the advice was carefully worded so as not to amount to an order to ram.
This feat was accomplished only once during the war by a commercial vessel when in 1918 the White Star Liner HMT Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic and Britannic, rammed SM U-103 in the English Channel, sinking the submarine.
According to Bailey and Ryan, Lusitania was travelling without any flag and her name painted over with darkish dye.
One story—an urban legend—states that when Lieutenant Schwieger of U-20 gave the order to fire, his quartermaster, Charles Voegele, would not take part in an attack on women and children, and refused to pass on the order to the torpedo room – a decision for which he was court-martialed and imprisoned at Kiel until the end of the war.
This rumour persisted from 1972, when the French daily paper Le Monde published a letter to the editor. Despite seemingly putting an end to this rumor, Voegele's alleged hesitation was depicted in the torpedoing scene of the 2007 docudrama Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea.