The Unsinkable Francis Tuohy
Survivor of three of the biggest shipwrecks in history, or a fraud?
7 min readSep 13, 2021
On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, eleven miles off the coast of Ireland, the German submarine U-20 patrolled the seas, waiting for the arrival of the American liner Lusitania. The Americans were neutral; they had yet to declare war on Germany. Nevertheless, they continued to run passenger liners and…
