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Stop allowing politics, no one on sm has anything to do with you... It's all become nothing more than a platform for attacking each other for their political views...

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I'm a devout Anarchist & tired of constantly being called supporter of one puppet or the other puppet because I think & speak for myself. I made this little group so both sides can bitch about each other to their heart's content.

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Unsinkable Survivors: Edwin Hall, Assistant First Class Mess Steward, Lusitania

Edwin Hall was born in December 1887 in Southampton, England and not much is known about his early childhood. He began his career at sea at the age of 14 and worked on many ships with the Cunard Line. Hall had a lifelong dream of experiencing everything the world had to offer and thought his best chance of fulfilling it was to become a sailor, despite warnings of a centuries-old family curse against going to sea. After signing on to RMS Lusitania in April 1915, he told a colleague that the only way he would be "claimed by the sea", as the Hall Family curse goes, would be "if this ship suddenly blows up", and laughed. On the return trip, his prediction came true. On 7 May 1915, RMS Lusitania was torpedoed eleven miles off the southeast coast of Ireland, sinking in fifteen minutes, claiming 1,198 lives, and prompting the US to enter WWI. Hall was seriously injured, but survived, while his colleague did not. He often joked about "breaking the family curse", but it may not have been broken, after all. Edwin Hall died on 24 May 1941, when HMS Hood exploded and sank in three minutes, during the Battle of Denmark Strait.

(My fifth cousin, one of three relatives on Lusitania - only survivor, only known family member to survive a shipwreck, fell to the family curse less than five minutes after laughing it off...)

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Is this what he meant?

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sound on is a must

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Pro-mask longduck is not playing

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This is an injustice

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The story behind the Unsinkable Memories Project:

After seeing the movie "Unsinkable" I thought, "what a great idea it was to focus on some of the survivors' lives after the Inquiries, but what about everyone else?" That's where the project gets its name. But I want to include all liners, not just Titanic.

So, I decided to start up this project, to commemorate those no one talks or even knows about. I want to get to know these people & tell their stories - the builders, the third class/steerage passengers, the crew members no one seems to remember.

If you are a descendant of anyone who had a hand in building or sailing a liner and would like them to be honored as part of the Unsinkable Memories Project, on our blog, or on the website, share your stories with us.

Email: unsinkablememoriesproject@gmail.com

Website:

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I've been fighting polycythemia for the past few years & pretty much out of commission, but I'm back to working on the project again (slowly)

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SS (RMS) Mona’s Isle (III) One of many passenger ships converted for the war effort during WWI. Harold Bride served as telegraphist aboard her (1915-1919).