page_title: Patrick Beesly
section_title: British 'plot...to endanger the Lusitania  '
hierarchical_section_title: Patrick Beesly / British 'plot...to endanger the Lusitania  '
caption_attribution_description: English: RMS Lusitania arriving in New York on her maiden voyage. LOC has no dating information, Maritimequest state 13 september 1907
context_page_description: Patrick Beesly was a British author and intelligence officer during World War II.
context_section_description: Patrick Beesly is known for his espousal of the view as a historian that in World War One the British Admiralty deliberately endangered the RMS Lusitania, sunk without escort in 1915, among whose passengers were many Americans, in an attempt to bring the United States into the war. At the time, the Admiralty was headed by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.
caption: Lusitania arriving in New York on her maiden voyage
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