Rod Hunt ROD was also born in the 1920's. He joined the US Navy at the age of 17 during WWII and served on board an amphibious landing craft as navigator, signalman and helmsman. At the end of the conflict, Hunt and his ship were dispatched to China where they acted as a medical supply and service vessel during a cholera epidemic on the Yangtze River. He also served in the Korean War with the Medical Company of the 9th Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division and was cited by the Division Commander and the Regimental Surgeon. He married the late Norma Kolbinger in 1964 and they spent three years as teachers in the remote Alaskan Eskimo village of Kotzebue. He survived a fishing boat sinking and rescue and an emergency bush aircraft landing. Most of his life has been a series of adventures from stock broker in Texas to teacher, Entertainment Director for the US Air Force, a brief Oxford stint at St Antony's, the University of Mexico, the University of Alaska, entrepreneur, corporate founder to gold miner in Alaska and the Yukon Territory and life-long gob-smacked amateur historian. Rod currently lives in Minnesota where he and the company Kopet-Dag team raise Akhal-Teke purebred horses, he works in Canada and has spent 30 years as a friend of Eugene's and as a contented blow-in in Kinsale. Eugene Gillan EUGENE was born in the 1920's of a sea-going family in Sligo. He has spent his life along the coasts of Ireland. He proudly served for 40 years with the Irish Lights as lighthouse keeper in every one of the then-manned lighthouses which surround the nation. In his retirement years he was Curator to the Kinsale Regional Museum which houses many remnants of the Lusitania and has acted as guide and authority to thousands of visitors. He has been the capstan of resourcing first hand knowledge and personal information as regards the sinking, the Irish rescue efforts and the stories of the survivors. He has been a member, officer and contributor to the Kinsale Historical Society for more than 30 years. Eugene has appeared in interviews on radio and television in world-wide BBC and National Geographic productions which portray the events surrounding the sinking of the Lusitania. Gregg Bemis III, the owner of the Lusitania wreck is a frequent visitor and friend. Now widowed from his beloved Breda, his wife of more than 60 years, he lives in Kinsale and follows his lifetime passion for drawing and painting.