Sir,—Lar Joye, in his item on the Lusitania (Artefacts, HI 23.3, May/ June 2015), refers to the torpedoing of the RMS Leinster in 1918 ‘with the loss of 178 lives’. This is a common error made by referring to an official 1919 publication on vessels lost at sea, which omits military deaths. Phillip Lecane, in ... Read more
