Warm tributes have been paid to the former owner of the wreck of the Lusitiania, Greg Bemis who died at his home in America – just over a year after transferring ownership of the wreck to a local community group in West Cork.
“Greg has been ill for a number of years but he was quite determined to come to Ireland last year to formally hand over the ownership of wreck to us and that’s something for which we will be eternally grateful,” said Mr Hayes. “He clearly realised he could not go on forever and his family weren’t interested in continuing directly as it was too difficult for them,” Mr Hayes said.The Lusitania went down on May 7th, 1915 with the loss of 1,201 lives. It had been torpedoed some 18kms off the Old Head of Kinsale by the German submarine, U20 while en route from New York to Liverpool.
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