s last voyage still needs to be classified almost 100 years after her sinking?
From Beesly’s Room 40, page 122: “The mysterious signals between the Admiralty and the Lusitania between 5 and 7 May may well hold the answer. The file seems to have been in the possession of the Admiralty as recently as 1972. Now it has vanished again!” From Preston’s Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy, page 384: Many of the Cunard Company’s Lusitania files disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Some but not all of them have resurfaced and been purchased by the Cunard archives. Official files in Britain, the United States, and Germany give tantalizing leads that then disappear. Blank sheets inserted to preserve pagination sequences suggest that certain documents, like telegrams sent to and from the ship during her final voyage, have been removed. The authenticity of certain “official” documents or alleged statements is open to question.
