Sinking of the RMS Lusitania significant "false flag" controversy left the ship; Cunard later explained that he was "tired and really ill." He was replaced with a new commander, Captain William Thomas Turner, who had previously commanded "Lusitania", "Mauretania", and "Aquitania" in the years before the war. On 17 April 1915, "Lusitania" left Liverpool on her 201st transatlantic voyage, arriving in New York on 24 April. A group of German–Americans, hoping to avoid controversy if "Lusitania" were attacked by a U-boat, discussed their concerns with a representative of the German Embassy. The embassy decided to warn passengers before her next crossing not to sail aboard
HMS Snowdrop (1915) up on 15 January 1923 to the Unity Ship Breaking Company. HMS Snowdrop (1915) HMS "Snowdrop" was an "Azalea"-class sloop of the Royal Navy. "Snowdrop" was built at the yards of McMillan, and was launched on 7 October 1915. She served during the First World War. In May 1918, she rescued the survivors from the liner , which had been torpedoed three times and sunk by "U-55" (six years earlier "Carpathia" had rescued the survivors from the ill-fated ). Also that same year, she took the American destroyer in tow, after the "Cassin" had been damaged by "U-61". "Snowdrop" survived