Lusitania Interview Opportunity TODAY:

Speak with Greg Taylor, author of Lusitania REX, on board Cunard's Lusitania Remembered Cruise, while the ship hovers over the site where the Lusitania sank, exactly 100 years ago!

Media contact: To arrange the telephone interview, discuss editorial commissions/quotes, and to access exclusive images taken while on board the ship including artefacts displayed in the temporary exhibition rescued from the landing site, and other photos showcasing the cruise experience, please contact Helen Lewis,helenlewis@literallypr.com/ 07904801669.

7th May 2015: Author of the new, shortlisted historical fiction novel, Lusitania R.E.X., Greg Taylor, is currently on board the prestigious Cunard centenary cruise. The Queen Victoria left Southampton for seven nights from 3 May to 10 May. The ship anchored at St Peter Port, Guernsey on 4 May, sailed to France (5 May), was at sea yesterday (6^th) and arrives at the site where the Lusitania sank (Cobh, Ireland) today - 7 May. It will then travel via Dublin and return back to Southampton on 10 May.

There will be a commemorative service involving all the passengers this afternoon including the offering of floral tributes. The Lusitania sank in just 18 minutes after it was first hit by the torpedo on May 7^th1915 at 2:10pm.

L-R, Lusitania Invitation, Author Greg Taylor (right) with the Ship's Pursar and his partner Christian, Lusitania life jackets