The Lusitania's Last Voyage
after the paragraph, "In addition to these difficulties there were the well-meant but probably disastrous attempts of the frightened passengers to assist in the launching operations," the following: "Many more than half their number lost their lives." From what, pray? Because they were "frightened," or because the crew acted with "skill and judgment"?
It doesn't seem to me that this Court of Inquiry has stood up to its business like the historic Briton who isn't afraid to take his medicine, and place blame where it should be placed; rather, it has hidden behind the act itself, which it finds "was done not merely with the intention of sinking the ship, but also with the intention of destroying the lives of the people aboard."
So for the Captain, the Court finds that he acted with "the judgment of a skilled and experienced man, and … ought not …
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