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(The Lusitania Resource) ... On the day of the disaster, Boulton sat down in the verandah café with Commander Stackhouse for a cup of coffee. Stackhouse was busy explaining to Boulton “how the Lusitania could never be torpedoed, that the watches had been doubled, and the people were looking out, and they’d see the periscope of the submarine a mile away . . .. And in the middle of his trying to prove . . . that the Lusitania could not be torpedoed,” Stackhouse was interrupted by “two almost simultaneous explosions.”
Water and debris crashed through the glass roof and the two men ran outside.
Lt. Frederic Lassetter then saw Commander
Stackhouse, and the Commander told Lassetter to look for his mother Elisabeth. When Lassetter and his mother
returned, they saw Stackhouse give his lifebelt to a little girl and assist with
loading the lifeboats. He was explaining to those he helped that he could not
join them because “There are others who must go first.”
During the Lusitania make her final plunge, Lassetter from his
relative safety in the water, saw Commander Stackhouse standing calmly on the
stern. Continued
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