Gregg Bemis Jnr, American owner of the wreck of the Lusitania, (torpedoed by a German submarine off Kinsale in 1915), recently died aged 91. In his time, he ‘salvaged’ and sold the ship’s two bow anchors and thousands of other valuable items. Lax Irish marine law in those days (the 1980s) meant there was no… Read more »
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