Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1933, Page 12

—12 FANED SEACAPTAN CLAMED BY DEATH Skipper of Lusitania, Torpe¢’ doed and Sunk During War, | Had Notable Career. By the Associated Press. LIVERPOOL, England, June 24— Wwilliam Thomas Turner, who was cap- tain of the Lusitania when it was tor- pedoed and sunk in May, 1915, died to- + day at Great Crosby, near here, at the age of He had bcen bedridden three months. > His illness was largely due to his arduous life, including his war experi- ences. He had been in a number of shipwrecks. On his first voyage, when he was 8 years old, the 500-ton k com- . manded by his father struck a rock off Belfast, Northern Ireland, and was wrecked His connection with the Cunard line began in 1903. He eventually com- manded the Umbria, Carpathia, Ivernia, Mauretania, Aquitania and the Lusi- tania. ) He aided the allies in carrying men and horses across the Atlantic during | the war but was publicly inconspicuous | until the Lusitania was_torpedoed. He | recently retold how he then was rescued after three hours in the water when death seemed certain. j Capt. Turner had a similar experience in 1919 when the Ivernia, in which he was bringing troops from the Mediter- rancan, was torpedosd and sank. On this occasion, also, he was rescued after swiming several hours He cherished several mementos of his career, but none more than two of the thousands of letters he received after the Lusitania disaster. Both came from the United States. One was from a woman, who wrote that she had secretly loved him since she first saw him. Capt. Turner was one of the few officers saved when the Lusitania of Gets State Post NEW ASSISTANT SECRETARY APPOINTED FROM OHIO. HARRY F. PAYER Of Ohio, Secretary of State, Francis White, now Minister to Czecho- slovakia. newly appointed Assistant the Cunard Line was torpedoed by a| German submarine and sank off the southeastern tip of Ireland near the entrance to the Irish Sea. A number of prominent Americans lost their lives in the disaster. His gold-braided arm was said to have been responsible for the rescue | of Capt. Turner, who remained on the bridge of the ship until the structure was submerged. He then climbed up a ladder, reached the surface and grasped an oar and a chair which were floating past. After he had clung to the chalr for almost two hours it overturned The captain then flung up his arm. | It was seen by a member of the crew of a nearby boat, which saved him. He was taken to Queenstown, where his_first remark on landing was said to have been: “Well, it is the fortune of Wi 25% to 30% more VBLOWABLE tires—the grea death. This results from a great covery—the discovery that § with 259, to 309, more stretch ented way. Order the great Unblowable once, and avoid a chief cause o save real money. 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