Video by Dan Linehan
As part of the annual sinking of the Lusitania commemoration a headstone to Margaret MacKenzie Shineman was unveiled at St. Multose Church in Kinsale.
Rev. Peter Rutherford gives the Irish Examiner a brief history on this grave which remained unmarked for 101 years at St.Multose Church in Kinsale, Co Cork. The Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7 1915.
George Woods, Lusitania Historic Group unveiled a headstone to Margaret MacKenzie Shineman who lay in an unmarked grave at St.Multose Church in Kinsale, Co Cork. Included were Terrty Connolly and Dermot Ryan of the Kinsale Historical Society with Fr. Stan Hession and Rev Peter Rutherford, Rector of Kinsale. Picture Dan Linehan
The Lusitania was the world’s largest passenger ship when it was launched in 1906.
Of the 1,962 passengers onboard the ship, it is thought that 1,191 lost their lives including 128 American citizens which proved a significant factor in the US declaring war on Germany two year later.
Margaret MacKenzie Shineman aged 27 years who died in the Lusitania disaster. Picture Dan Linehan
The boat had been on its way from New York to Liverpool when it was torpedoed.
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