United Kingdom. A Lusitania Propaganda Medal, With Case Archive the cross is marked with

the cross is marked with a Hound hallmark for silver content

Given the wreck’s fine state of preservation and the fact that he had dove that area many times before without seeing any evidence of a shipwreck

a Schifferdienstbuch

swing bar reverse

original ribbon suspended from a hanger inscribed "AUSTRALIA"

United Kingdom. A Lusitania Propaganda Medal, With Case Archive the cross is marked withConstructed of magnetic iron, the obverse illustrating the stricken liner sinking, her stern submerged to left while her ram shaped bow, laden with armaments, rises clear of the water (an image contradicting eyewitness accounts which stated that the ship went down bow first, the shape of the bow being a reference to the configuration of warships of the period and possibly a reminder that the British Admiralty had ordered merchant vessels to attempt to