LINER'S SKIPPER.
Death of Captain Turner, of the Lusitania. SEQUEL TO LONG ILLNESS. (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON", June 23. The death is announced of Captain William T. Turner, commander of the Lusitania when she was torpedoed by a German submarine off Kinsale, in the Irish Sea, with the loss of 1195 lives. A vivid story of the Lusitauia's sinking was told by Captain Turner in an interview with an English journalist, printed in the "Auckland Star" a fortnight ago. At the time the skipper of the ill-fated Cunarder was lying in bed at Great Crosby, near Liverpool, where he had been an invalid for the past three years. He emphasised the rapidity of the disaster, which took only eighteen minutes from the time of the impact to the final plunge into the depths, taking with her over a thousand of the passengers and crew. He himself went down with the stricken liner, but came to the surface again, and was swimming when picked up by a lifeboat.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 9
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