At work as usual¹. Finished in decent time. Met Charlie in the station. At work at night. Went to Roker.

Heavy loss of life in Lusitania² disaster. Got news at night of loss of “Maori”³ off the Belgian Coast.

1. Saturday morning working was of course normal – as it remained until the 1960s. ↩

2. Lusitania: See notes on 7 May. ↩

3. “Maori”: RN destroyer, built 1909, sunk by a mine on 7 May 1915 off Zeebrugge. ↩