<P> Notice! Travellers intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or any of her allies, are liable to destruction in those waters and that travellers sailing in the war zone on the ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk . Imperial German Embassy Washington, D.C. 22 April 1915 </P> <P> This warning was printed adjacent to an advertisement for Lusitania's return voyage . The warning led to some agitation in the press and worried the ship's passengers and crew . </P> <P> While many British passenger ships had been called into duty for the war effort, Lusitania remained on her traditional route between Liverpool and New York . She departed Pier 54 in New York on 1 May 1915 on her return trip to Liverpool with 1,959 people aboard . In addition to her crew of 694, she carried 1,265 passengers, mostly British nationals as well as a large number of Canadians, along with 128 Americans . Her First Class accommodations, for which she was quite famous on the North Atlantic run, were booked at just over half capacity at 290 . Second Class was severely overbooked with 601 passengers, far exceeding the maximum capacity of 460 . While a large number of small children and infants helped reduce the squeeze into the limited number of two - and four - berth cabins, the situation was ultimately rectified by allowing some Second Class passengers to occupy empty First Class cabins . In Third Class, the situation was considered to be the norm for an eastbound crossing, with only 373 travelling in accommodations designed for 1,186 . </P> <P> Captain Turner, known as "Bowler Bill" for his favourite shoreside headgear, had returned to his old command of Lusitania . He was commodore of the Cunard Line and a highly experienced master mariner, and had relieved Daniel Dow, the ship's regular captain . Dow had been instructed by his chairman, Alfred Booth, to take some leave, due to the stress of captaining the ship in U-boat infested sea lanes and for his protestations that the ship should not become an armed merchant cruiser, making her a prime target for German forces. . Turner tried to calm the passengers by explaining that the ship's speed made her safe from attack by submarine . However, Cunard shut down one of the ship's four boiler rooms to reduce costs on sparsely subscribed wartime voyages, reducing her top speed from 25.5 to around 22 knots . </P>

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