Article: Mystery tribute to liner victims restored; 10-year campaign to save Lusitania memorial ends.(News)

Byline: PETER ELSON

ARARE and striking glass war memorial, featuring the doomed Cunard liner, Lusitania, has been restored after a 10-year campaign.

The unique tribute to the dead of two world wars at St James's Church, Mill Lane, West Derby, shows Cunard Line's record-breaker steaming at full speed with smoke billowing from her four funnels.

She was heading for Liverpool from New York when she was torpedoed and sunk by a German Uboat off the Irish coast on May 7, 1915, with the loss of some 1,200 lives.

An image of the Lusitania was probably incorporated in the First World War memorial because she was a popular Liverpool ship and many ...

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